droundy:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there were any plans to add support for extensible layouts to xmonad? I haven't really gotten any comments on my patch to do so, and have no idea if the approach I sketched out is considered unacceptable, foolish, or what not. Or perhaps there's just no real interest in extensible layouts by the other developers?
On the contrary! We *really* want to support arbitrary user layouts specified in Config.hs (or elsewhere). I'd personally like ion-style tiling. We've spent a bit of time talking about this on #xmonad. The main issue is currently that the layout algos can't be specified from Config.hs, and we need/intend to resolve this before 0.2.
I'd rather not bother resolving the conflicts I've got with the recent burst of modifications if there's not much interest in the patch, particularly as my wrist has decided I shouldn't be using my computer very much--and I need to use one for work.
I think the best approach would be to work out a way to support user Config.hs, and then just have submitted algos go into XMonadContrib. Spencer, do you have some thoughts on this? -- Don