Re: [xmonad] xmonad 0.8 release candidate

Joachim Breitner writes:

Am Donnerstag, den 28.08.2008, 15:06 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:

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On 2008.08.26 23:32:19 +0200, Joachim Breitner scribbled 1.6K characters:

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Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 26.08.2008, 16:23 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:

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Or how about this UpdatePointer patch http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-June/005845.html? No comments, applies cleanly, and doesn't look fatally flawed to me.

I know that _something_ behaved differently when I packaged and installed the release candidate, although I wasn’t sure until you notified me of this. I must have had it applied locally before.

That's interesting. So you didn't see any problems with this patch? Did it get more widely used? If it's been de facto tested extensively already, application would be a good idea.

I’ve been using it since it was posted, and it’s fine. Without it, I sometimes have mouse jumps away from popped up menus, just because Xmonad felt it had to run loghook for some reason. From my POV, this is tested and can be considered a bug fix, not a new feature, and therefore could, with some goodwill, be applied in a release freeze :-)

I don’t know of anyone else using it, so if anyone on this list uses UpdatePointer without these patches, please speak up.

I was not aware of this patch because I haven't followed the patches much in a while, but I would consider this patch to be a bug fix that I would be very thankful for. Most of the time the bug is just annoying, but occasionally it can make things frustratingly unusable-- not often, but just enough. I've learned to live with the problem like hiking with a pebble in one's shoe. I don't know how many people actually use UpdatePointer, but I suspect that for those who do use it and experience this bug, most would probably be very happy to have this fix. -Aaron