Extra options for more flexibility

[JonnyHaystack]

Over time I am realising that I often switch between different tasks which means different programs/layouts which I will want to save/restore. It's starting to become limiting that I have to use a different workspace for every different task that I might want to work on. It's hard to keep track of which workspace I use for what and the muscle memory is a factor too.

So now I'm thinking it would be nice to have these new options:

• Option to save workspace to a custom named "session"
• Option to restore named "session" programs/layout on the currently focused workspace (currently it is assumed that a workspace name will be given and i3-resurrect will switch the focus to that workspace before restoring)

A command to list saved sessions would also be nice for scripts. With this I envision a rofi script that allows you to search your saved sessions and restore the selected one into the current workspace.

I want the current usage/workflow to still work the same, because it's quick and works well for the most part, but I'd also like the flexibility of being able to restore an arbitrary named session on any workspace if I need to.

I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts on this, as it may end up requiring some significant changes to the interface (might be a 2.0.0 feature I'm not sure yet).

[JonnyHaystack]

Some thoughts:

• Under ~/.i3/i3-resurrect, I could have the following subdirectories:
  • workspaces
  • profiles
  • maybe scratchpad if I'm able to support it
• i3-resurrect save --profile <profile name> - saves current workspace to a named "profile"
• i3-resurrect restore --profile <profile name> - restores a named profile to the current workspace
• i3-resurrect list <workspaces|profiles> - lists saved workspaces/profiles
  • Maybe give details about what is included in saved workspaces/profiles (programs and/or layouts)
• i3-resurrect rm/del --workspace <workspace> [--layout-only|--programs-only] - self explanatory
• i3-resurrect rm/del --profile <profile name> [--layout-only|--programs-only] - self explanatory

[JonnyHaystack]

I think it actually makes sense just to have each profile be a subdirectory of the i3-resurrect directory. This actually means it's not really necessary because you might as well directly specify --directory|-d, but I think it makes it a bit more intuitive and user-friendly to have a dedicated --profile option.

Scratchpad layout files could just be called scratchpad_programs.json and scratchpad_layout.json.

EDIT: Then again that would mean you can't restore a profile to a different workspace from the one you saved it on..