Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: New module XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation

Norbert Zeh [2010.05.07 1310 -0300]:

Hi Brent,

I had a nagging feeling that something like this alreeady exists, but I seem to remember looking at CycleWS and not finding what I wanted in there. I'll look again.

- Norbert

Brent Yorgey [2010.05.07 1119 -0400]:

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How does this compare with the existing functionality in XMonad.Actions.CycleWS? Is there a possibility of merging them into a single module?

-Brent

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:39:35PM +0200, Norbert Zeh wrote:

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Fri May 7 15:32:26 CEST 2010 Norbert Zeh * New module XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation

This module allows the navigation of windows by groups, where a group is defined as the set of all windows satisfying a specified boolean query.

The first set of functions simply allows the cyclic forward/backward traversal of the list of windows in a group, possibly performing a custom action if the group is empty.

The second set of functions adds a facility to keep track of the focus history of all windows and uses this history to allow jumping to the most recent window in a given group.

Actually, I just looked at CycleWS again. It seems that indeed, it supports similar things on workspaces as the new module supports on windows. I don't feel strongly either way about merging these two. If anyone has strong feelings about this, let me know. - Norbert