[Xmonad] darcs patch: first shot at a floating layer

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

jcreigh:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:35:04PM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> > Another couple of ideas for the float layer:
> > 
> > mod1-button2 should raise a window that's not at the top, but lower to the
> > very bottom one that's already on top.  Otherwise it can be hard to find
> > obscured windows.  But once this behavior is configurable, of course, this
> > change will be less critical.
> 
> I don't know about this. But yes, I agree that mouse bindings should be
> configurable.

Agreed.

> 
> > When dragging a window, I'd rather it was displayed is it'll be when I
> > release it.  Currently the window is raised to the top while being dragged,
> > but then released at the current stacking level, with the result that you
> > can easily "lose" the window you're dragging, if you drop it under a larger
> > window.  This change wouldn't prevent that loss, but would make it obvious,
> > since the window would be hidden when you drag it under the larger one.
> > Another solution would be to always raise windows when moving them.
> 
> I'm thinking that we should just always raise windows to the top of the
> floating layer when moving or resizing them. Anyone have any other
> thoughts on this issue?

I think it should be raised, yes.  

BTW, Using the 'master' to indicate this is a bit icky , imo, but that's
another issue to do with implicit floating layers, or explicit/detached
layers.

-- Don