Re: [xmonad] restackWindow / raiseWindow

Hello, On 10.02.2013 01:28, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Jochen Keil wrote:

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I'm not sure if I got you right here. Maybe you could elaborate on what you mean by shiftMaster being raiseWindow. I think the additional Stack Window parameter in the layout is also what Brandon suggested.

No; I suggested a new *function*, type Maybe Stack -> [Window] -> X (), which does the raiseWindow or sets stacking order or etc. aavogt proposes to keep forcing the z-order globally but provide a way to specify an alternative order; this strikes me as asking for trouble unless one is careful to keep both Stacks in sync. Thanks for the clarification! I'm with you that forcing the z-order globally is not a good idea.

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restackWindows call in windows. Which is why I'm proposing to remove that call and make it instead a function in the layout, which can be overridden with an alternative. I think now I understand. I forgot about the Layout being a typeclass. So just add new function with a default implementation here. Sorry for getting my wires crossed. :)

so maybe it belongs directly in XConfig instead. Could you then still have different stacking orders for different layouts? I think the stacking order is directly related to the layout which also makes sense in as the View in the MVC model.

(Alternately, get XMonad.Operations.windows out of the stacking business entirely and put it with the rest of the layout. It probably belongs there instead of X.O.windows anyway, and in fact we may already have it being done in some/all? cases as is; and any situation which requires X.O.windows to restack windows also requires it to rerun the layout.) Speaking again in MVC terms: As far as I understand it, XMonad.Operations.windows is the Controller, which should be decoupled from View and Model. Therefore it should not do things which belong to the V or M (e.g. restacking windows).

I'll try to extend the layout class as discussed above and report back in a few days. -- -jrk Denn meine Gedanken Zerreißen die Schranken Und Mauern entzwei: Die Gedanken sind frei.