[xmonad] XMonad 0.5, combo layouts, swapDown and swapUp

[Dave Harrison]

David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:13:02PM +1100, Dave Harrison wrote:
>> Quick "maybe glitch" though, I'm using ComboLayout with Tabbed, and I
>> find that when I first add lots of windows to the layout the alt-tab
>> order is correct (also when adding windows into the middle of the
>> stack it's correct).  When I swapDown or swapUp _in_ the stack, the
>> order is correct.  But if I swapDown or swapUp at either end of the
>> stack the ordering goes rather pearshaped (the ordering is no longer
>> correct "visually" if you see what I mean).  Is this a known thing ?
> ...
>>             , layoutHook    = smartBorders ( combineTwo (TwoPane 0.03
>> 0.5) (tabbed shrinkText defaultTConf) (tabbed shrinkText defaultTConf)
>> ||| mytab ||| tiled Tall ||| tiled Wide ||| Full )
> 
> First, let me note that you could create the same layout more elegantly as
> 
> layoutHook = smartBorders ( mytab *|* mytab ||| mytab ||| tiled Tall |||
>                             tiled Wide ||| Full )

Cheers David, I'll use that one ! :-)

> Secondly, with regard to focus order, Combo separates the focus order from
> the visual representation, because the focus order is handled by core
> xmonad, which has no knowledge of the hierarchical grouping, and isn't
> friendly to layouts reordering windows.  A proper fix would be to implement
> hierarchical Stacks in the core, but that seems unlikely, so we are left
> with ugly hacks, and ugly hacks are likely to remain ugly (although, we
> *can* give them beautiful syntax).

So just to clarify, does this mean that there IS an ugly hack in place
but there is a bug in it, or the solution would be an ugly hack that
has not been implemented ?

Cheers
D