Re: Ion3 wishlist / a note about Ion4

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2008-04-23, Jan Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would like to see window groups (awesome call it tags) so
> > that windows can easily be hidden or shown depending on their
> > group.
> 
> This does not seem to very well fit with the tiling approach of
> Ion

On the contrary I think it fits very well. For my optimal setup I
would only have one single workspace. Split in two or four
(equal) parts. As the day goes on it fills with windows for
different tasks. Just staring up I load my IM client, calendar
and mail client. Then starting work in an a number of xterms. If
I then want to dig into a problem I need to stop the IM, mail and
such. I think it would be nice to just hide/unmap the tag/group
"Interupters".

> , but in relation to floating windows, Ion does support groups.

Floating windows is so bad, thats why I use Ion. :-)

> You may create multiple simultaneously visible groups (also
> known as workspaces). They key is to not put them on the
> 'mutually exclusive' or 'unnumbered' list of the screen. This
> is what the 'unnumbered = true' option of WMPlex.attach[_new]
> does. The scratchpad, for example, is contained in an
> 'unnumbered' WGroupWS. IIRC there are some related scripts in
> the scripts repo [1], but I'm not sure how up-to-date they are,
> and certainly they could be improved.

You lost me here but I think I get the point. I will have to
experiment with that one day.

> Of course, if you mean real non-hierarchical tagging of
> floating windows, instead of grouping, that isn't supported as
> such. But it is also possible to implement that support as a
> script, at least to some extent: you don't have to put your
> 'unnumbered' objects within a group. (Or 'numbered', but then
> tagging doesn't make sense, because 'numbered' objects are
> mutually exclusive.)

Yes, I believe what I want is possible to script. Someday I will
get there. (Never enough time).