On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:58:46AM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:

On 10/17/07, David Roundy wrote:

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Hi all,

This patch allows ion3-style selection of workspace and creation of new named workspaces. Also allows you to do stuff like move a window to a named workspace, interactively selecting this workspace by name.

David

Tue Oct 16 18:33:47 EDT 2007 David Roundy * add modules to deal with Workspaces (select, etc) by name using XPrompt.

You are quick. :) And this feature works nicely!

You're welcome! :)

There is no way to rename current workspace, is there? Anyway, DynamicWorkspaces.hs is very useful *already*.

That's next on my list (workspace renaming), but I really shouldn't get to it today, as I have some debugging of darcs that I need to do that probably will take all day.

Thank you, David.

You're welcome! -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:23:15PM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:

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On 10/17/07, David Roundy wrote:

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That's next on my list (workspace renaming), but I really shouldn't get to it today, as I have some debugging of darcs that I need to do that probably will take all day.

Changes to DynamicWorkspaces.hs:

Thu Oct 18 17:56:04 EEST 2007 David Roundy * add function to rename workspaces.

I haven't found this patch in mailing list, anyway...

I didn't email it, because I was afraid of swamping the list. Would you (and others) prefer to get emails of patches that introduce new features?

It works, it's lovely! Very useful. :)

Indeed, it's a little shocking how often I've renamed my workspaces since writing this code. :) A (hopefully) useful feature is that if you rename a workspace to an existing workspace name, then the two workspaces get merged. I haven't tested this feature yet, so I haven't documented it, but it seems like it ought to have good uses, and will perhaps make removeWorkspace obsolete.

BTW, could someone tell me, why does , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_a), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) work and , ((modMask, xK_A), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) (no shift, the capital `A') does not?

Not me... (and not because I'm being unfriendly, either) -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:53:29PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

On Oct 18, 2007, at 13:16 , David Roundy wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:23:15PM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:

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BTW, could someone tell me, why does , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_a), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) work and , ((modMask, xK_A), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) (no shift, the capital `A') does not?

Not me... (and not because I'm being unfriendly, either)

Because xmonad listens on untranslated key events, whereas xK_A is a translated key event (the translation absorbing the shift status). This is also why there are problems when numlock/capslock are engaged: translation normally removes those, but the window manager bindings operate at a lower level.

Note that, while xmonad could be changed to operate on translated events, that could cause other problems: notably, for those of us who can't allocate e.g. a Windows key to xmonad, we would lose the ability to pass through modifier bindings that xmonad itself doesn't use.

Thanks for that clear explanation! -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University

On 10/18/07, David Roundy wrote:

I didn't email it, because I was afraid of swamping the list. Would you (and others) prefer to get emails of patches that introduce new features?

Perhaps, the better place would be `XMonadContrib/NEWS' file.

A (hopefully) useful feature is that if you rename a workspace to an existing workspace name, then the two workspaces get merged. I haven't tested this feature yet, so I haven't documented it, but it seems like it ought to have good uses, and will perhaps make removeWorkspace obsolete.

You never know until you try. :) I haven't met such kind of feature in other... places. Looks interesting. -- vvv