Re: [STUMP] improvements of floating-group

[Ben Spencer]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:01:05PM +0000, Lionel Flandrin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:21:08PM +0000, Ben Spencer wrote:
> > Not sure about this, partly because I have both colours set to black,
> > and a black background, so the window borders become invisible :(
> > Perhaps another thing that would benefit from being configurable
> > per-group-type (ideally I'd like some kind of mechanism that would let
> > the user choose a global default and then optionally override it for
> > different group types).
> 
> Well, you have to admit your setup is pretty peculiar :).

Is there such a thing as a stumpwm user without a peculiar setup? :p


> Maybe you could just choose to use a non-black background, after all
> in stump you hardly ever see it in tiling-groups so it wouldn't
> really hurt to have one specially for the floating groups, would it?

Still doesn't really look right because my terminals have black
backgrounds too.


> If you really want something per group type, I think it would be an
> option to turn the borders on or off,

There's not an option to turn borders off entirely in tile groups
because if the window doesn't fill the frame you have to have
*something* in the surrounding space.


> per group colours souds a bit bloated to me.

I don't think it's that bloated, because the colours serve different
purposes.  In tile groups the borders are purely decorative; in float
groups they're controls that you use to move and resize the windows.


Ben