[Xmonad] Resizing speed a major limitation to layout possibuilities

[nornagon]

On 05/08/07, Tim hobbs <tim.thelion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find that the slow speed of window resizing is a major limiting factor in
> what layouts I can make.  The Rolodex layout would have had the farther back
> windows be smaller, but firefox takes over a second to resize!  Does anyone
> else have this problem?  Is it something that is likely to go away as linux
> improves?  I think that if this is as bad for others as it is for me, that
> the xmonad community should voice it's concerns about this limiting issue.

In some cases this is totally unavoidable: for example, irssi over
SSH. An electron can only move so fast.

- nornagon