[Xmonad] darcs patch: Tabbed: updated to the last (unannounced) API changes

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sun Oct 7 08:52:24 EDT 2007


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> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:47:00PM +0200, Christian Thiemann wrote:
> >  Sorry for this confusion.  I noticed that Tabbed and XPrompt also use the 
> >  AnyEvent to detect expose events, which are represented by the XExposeEvent 
> >  structure in Xlib.  I think it would be conceptually better to add an 
> >  ExposeEvent structure to X11-extras as well.  If you agree I will do this 
> >  and provide patches for X11-extras and the two modules.
> 
> Don't worry for the confusion. And thanks for adding that structure.
> If you want to add the XExposeEvent too, that would be great. I can
> take care of updating the rest (Tabbed, XPrompt and DragPane).
> 
> >  A different question: Would it make sense to ask the maintainer of the X11 
> >  package to incorporate the X11-extras package?  If I got it right, 
> >  X11-extras provides everything Xmonad needs that X11 lacks, but still it is 
> >  stuff that should be in X11.
> 
> I think this is the general plan. As soon as we are finished with
> Extras that will be incorporated into X11. (Spencer is also working to
> the XCB bindings and, IIRC, XMonad will be switching to XCB as soon as
> they are ready)

YEs, I've taken over maintainership for X11
so we can start the merge.


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