[Xmonad] patch: give WindowNavigation an empty description

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Oct 18 16:30:00 EDT 2007


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:37:35PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The WindowNavigation layout modifier was using the default "show" as its
> description, leading to a lengthy mess when displaying the current layout
> (using e.g. DynamicLog).  This patch changes the description to be empty,
> the reasoning being that I know whether I'm using WindowNavigation or not
> and don't need to see it in front of the layout.  I've also included a small
> change to LayoutModifier so that an extra space is not added before the
> layout description when the modifier description is empty.

Thanks for the contribution! I've pushed a somewhat modified patch, which
changes the default for layout modifiers to be an empty description.  I
don't see where this could hurt, and doubt that the show instance was ever
what was wanted.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University


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