Hi all,

Sorry to keep you waiting, but while getting these changes together I somehow managed to completely hose my xmonad twice!  The first time I'll write about later, but suffice it to say that it had nothing to do with the runLayout changes.  The second time... I'm still not sure what was going on, but after rebuilding everything from scratch it... seems to be OK now.  Of course, it's always scary when something magically gets fixed without knowing why, but hopefully things should be OK.  Of course, if you experience any problems, reports/patches/etc. welcome, and so on!

Don, if you can apply all these patches, that would be great.  I could apply the contrib patches myself, but of course the core patches and contrib patches need to be applied all at the same time or else things will break.

A quick summary of what's going on here: the LayoutClass is getting a new method, called runLayout.  By default, runLayout just calls doLayout or emptyLayout as appropriate.  If you're writing a simple LayoutClass instance, you don't need to worry about it; you can choose to implement doLayout, or pureLayout, or whatever, just as before.  However, if you are writing code which *makes use of* a LayoutClass instance, you should *only* call runLayout, handleMessage, and description: client code should no longer call doLayout directly.  If you do, anything which uses a non-default runLayout (like PerWorkspace) will break when used in conjunction with your code.  For more information, see all the modules that were updated for examples, and see the Haddock documentation for Core.hs:  I added a bunch of documentation which should hopefully make everything clear.

And yes, of course, this means that PerWorkspace now works with xinerama setups! 

Happy xmonading! 
-Brent

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Tue Mar 11 12:07:27 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * update documentation

Mon Feb 25 03:32:36 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * Reimplement Mirror with runLayout

Fri Feb 22 14:31:19 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * Reimplement Choose with runLayout

Fri Feb 22 12:58:15 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * runLayout is now a LayoutClass method and takes the Workspace and the screen Rectangle

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Tue Mar 11 17:29:08 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * ScratchWorkspace: update to work with runLayout changes

Tue Mar 11 14:17:15 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * Scratchpad: update to work with runLayout changes

Tue Mar 11 14:16:25 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * MagicFocus: update to work with runLayout changes

Tue Mar 11 14:15:37 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * LayoutScreens: update to work with runLayout changes

Tue Mar 11 14:14:00 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * Combo: update to work with runLayout changes

Tue Mar 11 13:20:46 EDT 2008  Brent Yorgey <byorgey@gmail.com>
  * MultiToggle: fix to work with runLayout changes to core

Sat Feb 23 02:55:31 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * PerWorksapce: use a safer False as default

Fri Feb 22 12:59:54 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * PerWorkspace: reimplemented using runLayout
  This way we have a Xinerama safe PerWorkspace and the emptyLayout
  method for free.

Sat Feb 23 03:15:53 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * ToggleLayouts: reimplemented with runLayout

Sat Feb 23 03:09:58 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * LayoutCombinators: NewSelect reimplemented with runLayout

Sat Feb 23 02:56:10 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * LayoutModifier: reimplement ModifiedLayout using runLayout and more
  - change modifyLayout type to get the Workspace
  - updated ResizeScreen and ManageDocks accordingly.

Fri Feb 22 12:59:24 EST 2008  Andrea Rossato <andrea.rossato@unibz.it>
  * Combo: updated to latest runLayout changes