[xmonad] Removing Actions.WmiiAction in favor of Prompt.DirExec

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Mar 3 14:22:21 EST 2008


juhe_xmonad:
> Hello,
> 
> I've written Prompt.DirExec which implements basically the same
> functionality like Actions.WmiiActions but uses Prompt instead of dmenu
> . I plan to purge Actions.WmiiActions from contrib and add Prompt.DirExec.
> 
> I consider DirExec better than WmiiActions because it doesn't depend on
> dmenu (which needs patch for xinerama to work properly anyways). I like
> Prompt better - it's part of contrib and  handles xinerama "automagically".
> 
> If anyone objects against removal of Actions.WmiiActions, please let me
> know. If there are no objections, I'll send a removal patch soon.

That seems ok with me, though it will break anyone who uses WmiiActions.
Perhaps there aren't any users of this module though?

> 
> Cheers,
> Juraj
> 
> PS: Is there any plan to get rid of dmenu completely?

dmenu in general? No, since plenty of people use it.

-- Don


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