Re: Add function to rotate/transpose all windows

[Pranshu Sharma]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> Which limitation?  The one that parent windows get resized?  I do use
> the normal size of windows (a float between 0 and 1) which does not
> change when you make the frame or some ancestor window smaller or
> larger.  By design, it should work.  Although when rotating we "flip"
> the normal sizes - what was a normal height becomes a normal width and
> vice-versa.  Slightly scary ...

The on where I showed in earlier screenshot, where the parent window
being split gets messed up.

>> Other then that, I don't see any problem with this code.  I think
>> all it
>> needs is some polishing, and it should be easy enough to add the
>> support
>> for flipping windows.
>
> For some value of easy.  Can you try to do that?  You would have to
> write it from scratch since the rotation code will hardly suit.

Ok, I'll first try to get the other functions working with the existing
code, and if it starts going south I'll start from scratch.

> Note also that the rotation code
>
> - always rotates the entire frame (you want it to rotate arbitrary
>   parent windows only)
>
> - doesn't care about side windows (a similar problem - it should
> rotate
>   the main window instead)
>
> - might fail with atomic windows

What's an atomic window? I read the manual but still couldn't understand

> - doesn't care about fixed size windows
>
> - might fail with small windows.

Highly unlikley, I tried it with very small splits and it worked.

> The latter two probably mean that we should run the algorithm with
> fixed sizes and minimum window sizes in place first.  If
> 'split-window' complains, re-run the algorithm ignoring fixed-size
> windows and minimum sizes.

What is the expected thing to happen in fixed size windows?

> And always keep in mind that once our functions exist, people will use
> them on-the-fly, expecting them to "just work". They won't forgive the
> smallest misbehavior.

ngl, when you say it like that it sounds like I am making food for a kim
jong ung