[Xmonad] Unusual tiling/tesselation ideas, anyone?

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

droundy:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > I'm interested in seeing if there are some other unexplored tiling
> > algorithms out there, we could try out.  Fib spiral tiling seems one
> > option. There must be some other cool ones (just start at
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation).  There's a lot of research
> > on plane tiling we could just adopt directly.
> > 
> > Anyone want to write a few interesting ones?
> 
> I've got more ideas to improve Mosaic (basically making it respect hints,
> and allowing users to input their own hints--minimum dimensions, aspect
> ratios--either rigid or flexible, maximum dimensions, preferd dimensions,
> etc---and make mosaic try to optimize the layout, if necesary refusing to
> display all windows, although this last bit should be optional), but not
> enough time and wrist-health to work on it.  :(
> 
> But you probably could have guessed this...

David, could you provide a nice screenshot of mosaic in action, for
inclusion on the contrib page?

    http://xmonad.org/contrib.html

Anyone else who has written a nice layout, could they also provide
screenshots to include on the contrib page. Then people can see what
each contrib module provides at a glance.

-- Don