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On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 01:24:22PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 19:57:10 +0200 Yes! We already comment most of our functions, it should just be a matter of adding a | here and there.
Ok. I'll start doing that on a regular basis. Hope to submit patches as soon as possible.
We don't plan to add any hs-plugins functionality at this time -- mainly for simplicity's sake. Of course, if this is achievable in a contrib module, go right ahead!
This is exactly what I was thinking to do, a contrib module. I love the design especially for this possibility.
Tabs are another thing that don't belong in the core -- but we'd like to make xmonad's layout system powerful enough to implement it as a contrib module. Please let us know when you stumble over limitations of the layout system.
The same here. The ability to design layouts is what makes XMonad very promising in my view.
By the way, I've expanded the page described the alternative layout algorithms in the contrib module. http://xmonad.org/contrib.html includes screenshots of the circle , overlapping layout style and of the new floating layer support. Also, I've done more work the last couple of days on serialising the internal state to stdout (logging = True). There's a tiny C program in the contrib scripts/ dir that will parse this format, and print a useful workspace summary to be used by dzen. -- Don