[xmonad] darcs patch: A better solution for choosing whether the tabbar shou...

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:36:11AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:59:10PM +1000, ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Fri Apr 11 22:58:04 EST 2008  Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> > >   * A better solution for choosing whether the tabbar should always be visible.
> > >   Instead of the previous patch I sent, this patch alters the datatypes used so that the
> > >   layouts in Tabbed take in a Bool parameter that sets whether or not the tabbar should
> > >   always be shown.  simpleTabbed and simpleTabbedBottom remain unchanged.
> > >   arossato's, droundy's and sjanssen's configs have been updated to reflect these changes.
> > 
> > Why isn't this Bool a part of the theme?
> 
> Themes are used for decorations other than tabbed -- this option doesn't make
> any sense for these decorations.

I suppose that's a philosophical point.  But I do object to breaking the
existing API.  I'd much rather see an extra flag like this added as a new
function (if we can't stick it in the Theme where it won't hurt anyone), so
existing configs would continue working.  The fact that this patch had to
update three configs that don't use the new feature tells me it's broken.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University