02:00 <Nosrep> are there plans to let floating window management be configurable like tiling is in the future or nah

02:04 <leon-p> can you expand what you mean with "configurable"?

02:10 <Nosrep> possible to change how it behaves in regards to stuff like stacking without editing river's source directly

02:11 <leon-p> maybe

02:12 <leon-p> the plan is to move window management completely out of river into the layout generator

02:12 <Nosrep> aight

02:13 <leon-p> however I am not sure yet how well that will work w.r.t. to floating views, as potentially anything involving the mouse requires either a lot of roundtrips with the layout gen (bad option) or a ton of imposable rules for flexibility (slightly better option)

09:37 <ifreund> Nosrep: stacking/rendering order will likely be configurable outside of river. Interactive move/resize with the mouse will likely remain internal to river.

09:38 <ifreund> Nothing is certain though, all of this stuff is just ideas at this stage. I need to actually implement and iterate on it to see if the ideas actually make sense in practice

10:32 <RZ_MJ[m]> Maybe river could handle moving/resizing a tiled window itself and when it is done, it tells the layout manager what happened (which window was moved where). Then the layout manager can decide what to do (let the window float or tile it again in a different position with an adjusted layout).

11:54 <leon-p> I think the best option will be to allow the layout gen to attach position / dimensions to cursor movement, while also allowing it constrain the area the cursor can move in. That keeps the annoying logic inside river without sacrificing flexibility or imposing any design decisions on layout generators

14:13 <aktina> leon-p: yesterday you were talking about using nested river sessions to have a terminal multiplexer like workflow, I wish to know how you'd do it

15:11 <novakane> for those interested I finally write a good enough for a beginning software to display tags status in zelbar https://git.sr.ht/~novakane/zelbar-river

18:35 <leon-p> aktina: just run river inside river. you can use the -c flag to point to a different init file that just starts a terminal for example

18:47 <rick42> Hey everybody!  New river user here.  Daily driving it now and it's working out great. (coming from bspwm btw.)  Many thanks for leon-p for the config article!

18:47 <leon-p> glad it works for you!