On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 01:21:09PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
I've been hacking xmonad a bit, but really shouldn't be. This morning I was seeing about starting in on a tabbed layout. The trouble I'm running into is that xmonad currently has no code that involves drawing to the screen, so there's no examples to modify! The other trouble is that it seems like we'd need quite a bit of infrastructure to support drawing on
Hmm yes, so contrib modules that do decorations -- we'd need to work out how to do that. The best place to start woudl be to look at ion or wmii, I suspect, to find out the X calls to make, and transliterate t code.
It doesn't need to be specific to decorations per se. For instance, you can do decorations using a event dispatch system and a means of notifying when to take down the decorations; such as my +14 line patch (which provides an extensible list of event hooks and a refresh notify), or Janssen's proposal to give Setup and Teardown and Events as layout messages. (shameless advertizing) I think my approach is better because it can be used by non-layout code easily. For instance a root menu (which must be in the same process that does the grab due to X protocol limitations) could be done. Stefan