On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:45:56PM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:22:32PM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
BTW, these patches require a vary small modification to XMonad itself. XMonad has just to wait for a propertyNotify event sent to the root window. If that happens a hook is called (I named that hook serverHook).
Well, I build up such a case... typical of a lawyer I'd say...;-)
Now I'm studying some of David's code, and LayoutHelpers, specifically.
There's no need at all to modify XMonad, this is just a simple contrib module I'm going to submit shortly.
Unfortunately David did not document much his code, and some of it, even if designed to help others, remains unused. I'll try to write some documentation too. I'm sure David doesn't mind.
I will greatly appreciate contributed documentation--or API improvements. LayoutHelpers was basically thrown together quickly to try to create *some* sort of working interface for a Layout transformer, but it isn't really something I can be proud of. :( It's been continually a hack. I have been thinking that we (I?) ought to define a layout monad L that basically would track the state of the layout (something like a state monad stacked on top of X) and return a value. Then we could write much prettier layout code. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University