* On Thursday, February 19 2009, Dominik Bruhn wrote:
Hy everybody, the patch by Adam Vogt containing the "TabbedModifier" seems the solution to my wishes (see my mail "Real Tabbing support"). Although its not perfekt at the moment it seems the right way. I got the following anotations:
1. Before applying it to the rep fix the following error: The documentation is wrong, it imports a module named Tabify which was renamed to TabbedModifier. Also the keybinding for the "UnTab" is wrong, it should read: "sendMessage . Tab.UnTab" instead of "sendMessage . UnTab" because of the imorts.
Yes.
2. Sometimes, some of the tab-headers are not drawn but stay empty.
For me, the titles of hidden windows don't have any text after a resize, but is fixed when the focus is changed, or after just a 'refresh' (M-n) I'm not sure where to start on this bug. The problem could be in my code, XMonad.Layout.Tabbed.addTabs...
3. Sometimes a tab-switch also moves the whole window around. To repoduce check the following: Take a empty Workspace with the "Tall" Layout. Open three console-windows and open some applications in them (ill take top, htop and mutt). Stack all of the to the left (using Ctrl+Mod+H), so that all three are on the same tabbed-stack. Now UnTab the first window (moves to the right) and try switiching tabs (two tabs remain). On every Tab-Switch the Tab-Stack moves from left to right or right to left.
I can think of a couple ways to solve this, though I'm not sure which sort of behavior is better (and adding an option between the 3 choices would just confuse everybody): 0. keep it the same, but just allow groups to be created out of windows adjacent in the stack (ie. don't use windowNavigation to pick the window to merge into) 1. rearrange the WindowSet to keep the tabbed groups together, so the modifier can keep asking the underlying layout to place the focused window where it would normally be placed - tabbing and untabbing causes the WindowSet to be rearranged 2. ask the underlying layout to place group where the 'master' of the group would go. - you won't be able to rearrange tab groups with the regular WindowSet operations (M-K,M-J, windowNavigation...), unless the first tab is focused
4. A keybinding for only switching tabs is missing.
That shouldn't be too difficult to add a specific message that will do that. -- Adam