NWI: hollow apps

[Matthew Woehlke]

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> [see previous message for context]
>   Matthew, first issue -- is this technically possible? If no, end of 
> story. If yes -- do you like it?

Technically... it should be (same as empty containers). I'm not sure how 
much I like it, though; seems like a waste of space, not very consistent 
with how docking usually works. For tab container a one-window container 
just shows a tab bar, though, so that is probably fine. Hmm, actually 
for floating you almost have to have, by definition, empty containers. 
How bad would it be to have some containers can be empty but others can't?

So that leaves tiled; there are pluses, sure, but I'm not sure about the 
space usage. What if there was no empty space but some other visual 
indicator (e.g. in the title bar, different frame on the container, etc) 
that you now have a window in a tile container versus just a window? 
(Actually I think the title bar already would be different, so...)

I do like having a "wrap current window in a {tabbed,tiled,floating} 
container" though. (I actually have assumed for a while these would be 
bindable keys, just haven't said it explicitly.)

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Matthew
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