Re: Re: [wmii] sh flame with Uriel

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:28:34PM +0100, Tube wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:32:54PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:19:33PM +0100, Bartosz Trudnowski wrote:
> > > I think we should drop 9base. And spaces ARE useful in some situations.
> >
> > For the case of spaces, we now have a stacking feature in columns:
> > http://www.wmii.de/shots/20060228.png
>
> sorry, garbeam - that really looks disgusting!

If you got a spacebed frame with 10 clients attached all having a
title like 'tube_AT_localhost.foo.bar: /home/tube/projects/..' you
won't be able to decide for a specific client, you even would
need to cycle through all spaces all the time to pick up a
specific one (simply because the bar would look like:
| tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | ...).

Stacks of tagbars scale much better than spaces and they don't
need an additional navigation layer. The tab which is wasted
for stacking is pretty bare, though it consumes somewhat less
tab than spacebing. All in all stacking sucks more than spacebing
if you can create new pages dynamically, which provide arbitrary
tab if the tab gets unhandy in a column.

Regards,

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