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

[Ivan Miljenovic]

David Roundy <droundy at ...> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 04:03:14AM +0000, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
> > If you want, I can do another patch making these changes to the theme
> > interface, and setting the boolean flag to false by default.
> > 
> > If I do this though, what should I call the Bool parameter in the theme? 
> > extraDeco ?
> 
> I don't know.  You could pick something.  I'd be more verbose than
> extraDeco, something like maybe alwaysDisplayDecorations? But that isn't my
> module, so you'd want to follow the style used there.
> 
> Or you could define new functions to create tabs that are present even if
> there's only one window.

Well, sjanssen said on #xmonad that he doesn't think that decorations need this
extra parameter, as it's very rarely needed.

I don't know if you saw it, but my original patch to implement this
functionality duplicated every layout/layout modifier in Tabbed with one that
always had the tabbar present... which I feel is too much duplication of effort.