Re: Spatial groups concept discussion

[Russell Adams]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 06:09:58PM +0000, Tim Macdonald wrote:
> Thank you very much for starting this discussion, posting the code, making
> the video, etc. For the record, I think using Libreoffice Calc as a
> presentation tool was inspired.

That was cheating. I needed to illustrate a grid, and a spreadsheet
was natural. For a real presentation I should make some graphics.

> As a relatively new Stump user I've also been curious about groups. The 1D
> list of groups has felt limiting compared to previous WMs I've used that
> supported a 2D grid of workspaces (and so far have been too lazy to write
> functions to do the appropriate modular arithmetic to simulate a 2D. Now
> with your code we can go 3D—even better!).

I have to say, it's on par with other tiling WMs. I recall xmonad, i3,
and others doing the same small list of groups.

> I think you have an unusually window-heavy workflow, and other ways
> of skinning the cat include having a lot of buffers in one Emacs,
> browser tabs, terminal tabs, perhaps tmux, using multiple
> monitors/heads, using splits (back when I had a 4k monitor it was
> almost necessary to use splits to make windows a usable size), etc.
> I personally have a group called "messaging" with five or six apps
> in it (Signal, Slack, Element, etc.) and am happy to use C-t <n> (0
> through 5) to get the right one up.

My primary screen is a tiny laptop screen. I used to travel
heavily. When you have zero cost task switching and little screen
space, you spam windows.

To be fair, my central communication screen is heavily tmuxed. Email,
Signal, terminal Emacs on one side, and a ssh login to tmux on the
other with irc, xmpp, and more.

I've found that unless I have a reason to stack things on one window
(ie: durable processes on a remote server), it's easier to spread out.

> Anyway, that's my answer to how I deal with group management and I'm very
> interested to hear how other people approach it.

Thanks for sharing!


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