On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 05:24 -0700, David Roundy wrote:
First and foremost: it seems that your zipper idea is taking a change in the user interface, and expressing it in the data structure. Wouldn't it make more sense to first have the discussion of what user interface is desired, and then implement it afterwards? Or did this discussion already occur on IRC, and everyone agreed that they didn't like the focus-stack behavior?
Personally, I prefer the idea of a focus stack, but will concur that your non-stack approach isn't much worse. And the data structure is certainly beautiful--except that it presumes that there exists a fixed layout based on order of windows, which I don't prefer as a UI. But I understand that most of you do.
Just to touch on this - the subject did come up on IRC. It shouldn't be
difficult to separate the focus and layout again by adding a layout list
while keeping the focus zipper. It should even be simpler for some tasks
such as adding new windows to the master position. But it is extra
book-keeping and it seems most users prefer focus order = layout order
for tiling mode.
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Robert Marlow