layouts managment

[danielwerg]

Just saw https://github.com/qxb3/fum/wiki/Rices section in wiki and while trying to apply them I run into couple issue/roadblocks:

1. Missing players, use_active_player and debug

I would forget to add it myself and get stuck for couple seconds thinking whats wrong

2. Having to type long path for config

Instead of fum -c ~/.config/fum/long_config_name.json, fum could also accept long_config_name and look for it in config dir

3. width and height should be inside layout (maybe rename UI?)

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Also few ideas how to improve the situation

a.

layout: accept string, name of the layout
layouts: array, each layout has a name

b.

Same as a. but have layouts in separate files. That way there would be config.json with layout and several layout-$NAME files along it.

[qxb3]

Just saw https://github.com/qxb3/fum/wiki/Rices section in wiki and while trying to apply them I run into couple issue/roadblocks:
Missing players, use_active_player and debug

• Yeah i intentionally hid them so you just copy the layout important part. Feel free to add them tho if you want.

Having to type long path for config
Instead of fum -c ~/.config/fum/long_config_name.json, fum could also accept long_config_name and look for it in config dir width and height should be inside layout (maybe rename UI?)

Also few ideas how to improve the situation

a.

layout: accept string, name of the layout
layouts: array, each layout has a name

b.

Same as a. but have layouts in separate files. That way there would be config.json with layout and several layout-$NAME files along it.

• Yeah having like a separate file for different layouts can be interesting. I also ran to this problem while screenshot-ing the project where i have to delete the current one to replace it with another one. I might consider this

config.json:

{
  "use_layout": "bar",
  "layouts": ["~/.config/fum/bar.json", "~/.config/fum/foo.json"]
}

bar.json:

{
  "name": "bar" // what will be used in use_layout
  ...
}

width and height should be inside layout (maybe rename UI?)

will do this when i decides to go with the above

[qxb3]

After some time of consideration, i decided not to go with this as its i think unnecessary feature that most people don't want. I guess if someone wants to have a layouts management they could write a script to do it, Writing one should be really easy to do.

Especially now that im planning to make the config auto-reload when changed. #42