(25-09-2020, 04:38 AM)venam Wrote: I keep thinking about this thread and I feel like the division between tiling and stacking is very limited.

Quote:Generically, window managers have two parts, the presentation, which displays windows and lay them around the screen, and the operations which is how the user enters commands to manipulate those windows. This is a vague overview of the basic and that gives rise to many possibilities and implementations.

Layout strategies, being part of the operation, is a much wider subject than tiling or stacking.
I'm not sure I'm expressing myself clearly, I've writting about WM & DE before but didn't go in depth into that particular aspect.

Have you ever thought about that?

Can you clarify what you mean by "layout strategies"? It's hard to know how to respond to your question when I tend to think of tiling and stacking as layout strategies themselves. What are they leaving out that you see being part of a wider subject that can be called by that name?

Is it just that there are other possible strategies besides those two?

E.g., 3D navigatable space like in a first-person shooter game?

There has also been some work on zooming user interfaces, aka ZUIs. I've seen some nice examples of those combined with a sort of mindmap, as a way to organize and present lecture "slides".

This ZUI looks interesting:
https://zircleui.github.io/docs/guide/