I will say, recent builds have a 'mini map' sort of zoom-out feature that I quite like - my one critique of niri was that I would sometimes get 'lost'.
But in this "endless horizontal tilling" scheme, the above principle would no longer hold, right?
Vastly preferable to having to look at the edge of the screen.
For those on older niri versions I have to say the "zoom out" overview feature is definitely worth the upgrade. As another poster said it really fixes the one issue on scrolling/ tiling wms, which is getting lost.
Things on other desktops are invisible in every WM.
The only difference with niri is the possibility for things to be left or right of the current window. Overview helps with that, but I know what I expect to be on a specific desktop (it's related to the topic) and seldom need it.
Now you want to access that terminal on /tmp/ again. Where was it?
In i3, I just spam-switch workspaces in this case, but at least I can find them. With scrollable wms, every ws can potentially hold that target app.
If you have (having had "Editor" focused, and just opened "TermT"):
Editor | (TermT) | Term | Browser
(FM) | Term | Browser | etc.
The answer (for me) is to think of desktops as topics. The terminal on /tmp is with the things that prompted its creation. If I needed to check some log output, for example, it's with the project that made that log output.
Edit: Note that there's nothing keeping you from stacking those terms if you like, i.e., the appropriate keybinding goes from the previous to
Editor | (TermT), Term | Browser
(FM) | Term | Browser | etc.
If you have something that would be reasonable to open on any workspace because it's ephemeral (they used a tmp terminal as an example), and you open it, navigate away from it, and then switch workspaces a few time, and then get pulled into a meeting or go to lunch, and come back, switch workspaces a few more times...
"Where did I leave that terminal, I dont remember where I was when I opened it."
In i3wm/sway etc, you can cycle all your workspaces and eventually one of them will have it visible. On Niri, as you cycle through all your workspaces you may never see it because you don't see all the windows in a workspace, unless you scroll through the workspace panes as you cycle workspaces.
It's not a problem necessarily, but it is something to consider. It sounds like this doesn't affect your workflow, but it might affect others.
But yes, that wouldn't be true, though focus moves to fresh windows so it's not an issue.
You can see window titles on the tabs on the tab bar, but you can’t even see the title of windows which are in a split container of a background tab.