joe.thornber:

On 23/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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Is this just a normal spiral? How about a fibonacci spiral?

Yes it's a normal spiral; the ratio is constant. Doing an approximation to a fibonacci spiral should be a minor tweak, the ratio just changes: eg in the example on that page the ratios are [8%5, 5%3, 3%2 ...]. The final result will only be an approximation since the aspect ratio of the screen will vary, so we'll probably get rectangles rather than squares.

I'll code this up later in the week.

- Joe

Cool. Sjanssen did get a nice approximation though, see the screenshot here, http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-spiral-thumb.png http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-spiral.png Any thoughts on other (practical) spirals, or tiling? -- Don

Joe Thornber wrote:

On 23/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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Any thoughts on other (practical) spirals, or tiling?

One big window in center top of screen, other little windows arranged in a U shape around it? I think this would be good if you have lots of windows in your stack.

This would actually be really nice if/when scaling compositing effects are available such that you can use the large window as a "focus" but still see all the other windows in that workspace ala Exposé, swapping them into the focus as desired. -- [Geoff Washburn|geoffw@cis.upenn.edu|http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~geoffw/]