Unusual tiling/tesselation ideas, anyone?
I'm interested in seeing if there are some other unexplored tiling algorithms out there, we could try out. Fib spiral tiling seems one option. There must be some other cool ones (just start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation). There's a lot of research on plane tiling we could just adopt directly. Anyone want to write a few interesting ones? It would be neat to have xmonad be a testbed for novel tiling interface design, due to its simple pure layout system. -- Don
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
I'm interested in seeing if there are some other unexplored tiling algorithms out there, we could try out. Fib spiral tiling seems one option. There must be some other cool ones (just start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation). There's a lot of research on plane tiling we could just adopt directly.
Anyone want to write a few interesting ones?
I've got more ideas to improve Mosaic (basically making it respect hints, and allowing users to input their own hints--minimum dimensions, aspect ratios--either rigid or flexible, maximum dimensions, preferd dimensions, etc---and make mosaic try to optimize the layout, if necesary refusing to display all windows, although this last bit should be optional), but not enough time and wrist-health to work on it. :( But you probably could have guessed this... -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net
droundy:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
I'm interested in seeing if there are some other unexplored tiling algorithms out there, we could try out. Fib spiral tiling seems one option. There must be some other cool ones (just start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation). There's a lot of research on plane tiling we could just adopt directly.
Anyone want to write a few interesting ones?
I've got more ideas to improve Mosaic (basically making it respect hints, and allowing users to input their own hints--minimum dimensions, aspect ratios--either rigid or flexible, maximum dimensions, preferd dimensions, etc---and make mosaic try to optimize the layout, if necesary refusing to display all windows, although this last bit should be optional), but not enough time and wrist-health to work on it. :(
But you probably could have guessed this...
David, could you provide a nice screenshot of mosaic in action, for inclusion on the contrib page? http://xmonad.org/contrib.html Anyone else who has written a nice layout, could they also provide screenshots to include on the contrib page. Then people can see what each contrib module provides at a glance. -- Don
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:41:02PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
David, could you provide a nice screenshot of mosaic in action, for inclusion on the contrib page?
Sure. Although a screenshot doesn't really capture much of mosaic, which is the dynamic configurability. I may take another one when I get to work, where I have a larger window that allows for effective viewing of more windows simultaneously. Here are a couple of such screenshots. Neither of them show mosaic off very well because I can really only practically view three windows, and the fanciness of mosaic (esp. with regard to gimp) is that it can at least remember which windows you want to be small--which isn't visible. For the curious, these shots feature me configuring xmonad to take screenshots using ksnapshot, and a photo of my fiance at her last recital being edited with gimp. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net
droundy:
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:41:02PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
David, could you provide a nice screenshot of mosaic in action, for inclusion on the contrib page?
Sure. Although a screenshot doesn't really capture much of mosaic, which is the dynamic configurability. I may take another one when I get to work, where I have a larger window that allows for effective viewing of more windows simultaneously. Here are a couple of such screenshots. Neither of them show mosaic off very well because I can really only practically view three windows, and the fanciness of mosaic (esp. with regard to gimp) is that it can at least remember which windows you want to be small--which isn't visible.
For the curious, these shots feature me configuring xmonad to take screenshots using ksnapshot, and a photo of my fiance at her last recital being edited with gimp.
Wonderful. Thanks David. Can I use these as thumbnails to explain mosaic tiling on the web page? -- Don
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:59:13PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
droundy:
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:41:02PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
David, could you provide a nice screenshot of mosaic in action, for inclusion on the contrib page?
Sure. Although a screenshot doesn't really capture much of mosaic, which is the dynamic configurability. I may take another one when I get to work, where I have a larger window that allows for effective viewing of more windows simultaneously. Here are a couple of such screenshots. Neither of them show mosaic off very well because I can really only practically view three windows, and the fanciness of mosaic (esp. with regard to gimp) is that it can at least remember which windows you want to be small--which isn't visible.
For the curious, these shots feature me configuring xmonad to take screenshots using ksnapshot, and a photo of my fiance at her last recital being edited with gimp.
Wonderful. Thanks David. Can I use these as thumbnails to explain mosaic tiling on the web page?
Sure. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net
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