Re: Wish item; workspace templates

On 2008-03-01, Per Ekström <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I like the concept of Ion, though I have yet to try it "for real" (I've onl=
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> been playing around in it so far). Kudos for such a nice WM. :)
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> There's just one thing I miss, that I haven't found in any of the tiling WM=
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> so far; There's no way to set up templates to tell your apps where they
> should go. :(

As others have pointed out, there's "winprops" [1], that can be used to
some extent. In particular the 'target' and 'new_group' properties are
useful in this case. The former will specify an existing frame or so,
and the latter the name of a stored layout for a new group to be created,
if the 'target' didn't exist. You can copy-paste the configuration of
a group you have created from the layout savefile (removing references
to client windows), and pass it to ioncore.deflayout to give it a name.
(Also see cfg_layout.lua for examples of layout definitions.) Give useful
(unique) names to the frames within the layout, and you have a sort of 
template system. It's a bit clumsy, but then apps don't exactly help us
here, and haven't found myself wanting an improved version of the feature.
You could do something better with Lua scripting, perhaps.

  [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion-doc-3/ionconf/node4.html#SECTION00450000000000000000


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