[Xmonad] darcs patch: add decorations infrastructure
Stefan O'Rear
stefanor at cox.net
Sat Jun 9 16:06:29 EDT 2007
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:40:21PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:27:00PM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here's some infrastructure to allow layouts to define window decorations
> > > such as tabs or title bars. I'm mostly sending it in to get comments.
> > > I soon hope to have a crude tabbed layout using this.
> >
> > Cool! In the spirit of comments, I think I see a simpler and more
> > general way to accomplish this. Expect a counterpatch shortly!
> >
> > Why restrict the core to *decorations*? This can be generalized:
> >
> > 1. Have a transientRestore :: [X ()] hook in the state, which is used by
> > the decoration manager (a XMonadContrib module) to remove decorations.
> >
> > 2. Have a eventHandlers :: M.Map WindowId (Event -> X ()) which
> > specifies what to do when other windows get events. This gives
> > Xmonad the toolkit-like facilities to implement drawing, clicking,
> > etc decorations.
>
> Actually this isn't needed. It can be handled just fine using a *real*
> toolkit out-of-process.
On second thought, having toolkit functionality in the Xmonad core would
be a Good Thing, since it would allow the core to remain agnostic of
extension functionality such as external command sources.
Stefan
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