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Re: [RP] dockapps
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Cameron Patrick |
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Re: [RP] dockapps |
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Sat Jul 10 05:20:07 2004 |
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Joe Corneli wrote:
> > This post reminded me of an idea of mine that I've been meaning to
> > post to the mailing list. I think it would be useful, at times, to
> > glue together a bunch of frames into a single window (from the
> > perspective of :windows, :next, :prev, :select etc).
>
> > It would require introducing 'nested frames' of some sort, which would
> > be tricky. I'm not sure quite what the best way to handle this would be.
>
> I suggest the way to think about this is to have a 'dereference' and,
> er, reference? operations for framesets or windowsets. Then
> everything else acts as normal, but only upon the current `layer' or
> `level of focus'.
That's the obvious way of doing it from a programming perspective, but
seems poor from a usability perspective.
> If I can be bold, my point of view is that what's lacking is full
> support for an already existing data-structure, usually called a
> frameset but more accurately called a "windowframe". (I.e. a
> particular assignment of windows to frames.) So put windowframes
> into a ring that can be traversed by functions :fnext :fprev
> :fselect. Does this avoid nested frames "of some sort"?
That sounds like you're reimplementing virtual desktops? [I'm not
really thinking my best at the moment (I've been up for ~15 hours and
had 5 hours' sleep last night) so maybe I'm just not grokking what
you're suggesting.] Also, :f{next,prev,select} probably aren't the
best names for it as :fselect already exists.
Cameron.
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