[xmonad] darcs patch: ThreeColMid - Swap slave window positions

[Anders Engström]

Oh. Sorry, that last thing was wrong. A verticalReflect will not be
required, only a horizontal. So the only drawback is the small
discrepency of the width, which is neglectable.

2009/5/4 Anders Engström <ankaan at gmail.com>:
> You misunderstood the changes I made a bit. All I did was to swap the
> positions of the slave panes. Previously they were placed like this |
> slave1 | master | slave2 |. Which result in the following order with
> three windows present and using W.focusDown: | 2 | 1 | 3 |. I changed
> it so it becomes | slave 2 | master | slave1 |, or with W.focusDown |
> 3 | 1 | 2 |, since we wrap around at the end of the list we will be
> moving from the top and moving to the bottom of each column and then
> from the left to the right continously. This instead of moving from
> the top to the bottom and then from the right to the left.
>
> After sleeping on this I came up with the idea that a vertical and a
> horizontal reflect will result in a very similar result, except that
> the master window will be at the bottom (and a pixel here and there in
> width). But this feels a bit tedious, I would consider this the new
> behaviour the expected behaviour. If the proposed changed would be
> accepted, the old behaviour could be emulated in the same way and with
> the same drawback.
>
> /Anders
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 01:49, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> * On Sunday, May 03 2009, Anders Engstrom wrote:
>>
>>>Sun May  3 21:50:26 CEST 2009  Anders Engstrom <ankaan at gmail.com>
>>>  * ThreeColMid - Swap slave window positions
>>>  This patch will swap the positions of the two slave windows and this
>>>  will result in a more intuitive window order. When using focusDown
>>>  beginning in the master pane we will move in the following graphical
>>>  order 2->3->1->2->3 instead of 2->1->3->2->1. This is backwards from
>>>  what is expected.
>>
>> So instead of going down the two columns alternating between the two,
>> you've changed it to go down a single column at a time?
>>
>>>  The small drawback is that increasing from 2 to 3 windows (and therefore
>>>  also columns) will behave in a less intuitive way. The window in the
>>>  right column will jump to the left of the screen.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a way to avoid this issue and keep your changes to the
>> focus behavior: I found ThreeColMid to be quite predictable when I tried it
>> a couple weeks ago.
>>
>> Perhaps you could achieve focusing down a single column with a binding to
>> something like:
>>
>>> windows $ W.focusDown . W.focusDown
>>
>> Of course with a special case for < 3 windows. Perhaps something like
>> PerLayoutKeys would be required for making such configurations more sane.
>>
>>>  I think that it is a good idea to make this change since I rely a lot on
>>>  the window order but people using WindowNavigation may be of a different
>>>  opinion.
>>
>> WindowNavigation users are unaffected by window order, so the only issue
>> would be your changing of the behavior when windows are added.
>>
>>>  An alternative is to add an option to select in what way to behave, but
>>>  that could be overkill... I leave it up to discussion and devs to
>>>  decide.
>>
>> I agree about that being overkill.
>>
>> Adam
>>
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