Re: [Xmonad] darcs patch: use a global IORef to keep list of urgent windows

On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:25 , Don Stewart wrote:

Oh, that's an issue -- now you've hidden state away in a module, how are we going to get at it to serialise? This is why global state is bad.

Urgency hints are ephemeral state, for which the window manager is *not* authoritative; you do not want to save it, you want to reconstruct it on restart by checking extant windows' urgency hints. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH