[Xmonad] patch: give WindowNavigation an empty description

Christian Thiemann mail at christian-thiemann.de
Fri Oct 19 06:59:56 EDT 2007


David Roundy wrote:
> 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.

Great! That was one of the things on my wishlist. Thanks for that (to 
both of you) :-)

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Christian Thiemann
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