[Xmonad] Fwd: Constrained resize for floated windows

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Tue Oct 23 18:28:05 EDT 2007


droundy:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:56:34PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > allbery:
> > > On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:08 , Dougal Stanton wrote:
> > > >If it's not deemed useful for mainline I've packaged it as a
> > > >contribution as well.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, if something *can* be expressed solely as a contrib, it  
> > > generally *should* be.  If it turns out to be a pattern used in many  
> > > contrib extensions, then it could be a candidate for the base.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the process. New experiments go into the contrib code, if
> > they're successful, they end up in the core.
> 
> I'd caveat that:  if the experiments are successful, and would be more
> elegant in the core, they go in.  I wouldn't call Tabbed unsuccessful, but
> se no reason for it ever to go into the core.

Yeah, if they just make sense as rather good extensions, we can keep
them that way.

GreedyView is one the things that made it into the core.

-- Don


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