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Gaps between windows in tiling managers (why would you have random parts of your background take up screen estate), and "icons instead of numbers" for workspace
by 63stack 1y ago
Gaps between windows in tiling managers (why would you have random parts of your background take up screen estate), and "icons instead of numbers" for workspace identifiers (was the circle icon meta-5? 6? 7?) are the biggest indicators for this. I would get annoyed in 20 minutes.
- bisby 1y agoI always had a keybind to toggle gaps. sometimes certain layouts just feel congested, and the gaps put spaces between the windows and helps them feel like they are in their own space (even though it makes them even smaller). It's purely psychological and often doesnt make sense, but it's not just "show off the wallpaper and waste real estate", it's for mental processing. And same goes for the icons. I've personally never gotten there. but also, I don't look at the icons. They could be hidden. I know if I need to get to slack or email, it's on workspace one. So if the workspace badge says "1" or "1: Comms" or "" ... it doesn't really matter, because the keybind is muscle memory anyway. But on the flip side, because all of that is muscle memory... I might go "Where was my email at again? Workspace 1, or 2?" and having an envelope as the label makes it easier to find. Different people have different workflows. And yes, some people are doing those things to sacrifice usability in the name of aesthetics, but some people may be GAINING usability by doing these things. People are vast and diverse.
- maxhille 1y agoI use gaps in sway. My windows have margins anyway because I use a border to indicate the active window and the border uses that margin. Fortunately sway has a built-in setting be space saving eg. in single window cases (where I know the window had focus always). I set this up many years ago and never changed it.