Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad

> If I need a Gimp in every workspace I just open a Gimp in every workspace where I need one.

Sticking with the workspace-per-project scenario:

What if there's no room in the workspaces that need Gimp? Or what if you only want Gimp occasionally, so you don't want it to fight for layout with your important windows in each workspace.

The downside of scratchpad is that you'll have many Gimps there, and they're disconnected from their related workspaces.

> Niri takes away the question of where to place it, but it definitely doesn't help with "Where the fuck is that one window I opened and how do I find it?"

In the workspace per project example, it's "my project foo Gimp is in the project foo workspace's overflow".

With something like i3/sway, you'll probably hide gimp in a tabbed/stacked container in some node in the workspace tree, but that's fiddly and kind of a hack in this example.

As for "where the heck is this window at all", I like mod-tab to MRU enumerate windows globally. This is a nice solution in any WM/DE.

> If you really need THAT much overspill on a workspace

We're just talking about an extra window here in a multi project setup which is something I run into dozens of times a day. You'll find a reference to this in every "I switched from i3/sway to niri" blog post. https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri - I'd say it's the main trade-off.

> Sure, Niri takes away the question of where to place it

We can probably just end it here, because that's the utility of a scrolling WM and you saw my point.

> What if there's no room in the workspaces that need Gimp? Or what if you only want Gimp occasionally, so you don't want it to fight for layout with your important windows in each workspace.

If I can't be bothered to use another workspace for Gimp, then I'll open it as a stacked window in StumpWM. So no fighting over space.

If you seriously end up with 5+ GIMP instances and 5+ projects, then I have to say: there is no way you work on that many projects at once. If you do, then that sounds more like a workflow problem.

I usually only have one, maybe 2 projects open, and a browser or two somewhere, maybe a terminal if I need a non-Emacs terminal. If you got 3-4-5-6 projects going at the same time that really is a project management problem I'd wager.

Might also be that I just have tabs or "workspaces" in my Emacs.

But I just can't see the advantage of the scrolling to just plain workspaces. The scrolling to me just adds one more indirection of having to remember where something is. It adds a new level to the navigation tree.

We can probably end that then, because you saw MY point. Whatever that means :D

Tried Niri before, but it seemed more to adhere to fancy animations than actual improvements.