SwapMaster (DwmPromote) and Stack reordering (was: Re: [xmonad] Newbie: Problems with Layouts and Syntax)

[Don Stewart]

mailinglists:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Well - one thing I'd like to change: Instead of swapping I'd like to put
> > > the current master on top of the stack;
> > I had wanted this for a while too; you got me to do
> > something about it.
> 
> :-)) Thanks alot - still didn't find time to learn some haskell :-(
> 
> > promote :: X ()
> 
> Just did a fast check - but it seems to do what I meant - THANKS alot!
> 
> > I would send a darcs patch, but I don’t know where it should
> > go. A new module seems overkill, the name DwmPromote doesn’t
> > apply to it, and renaming DwmPromote.hs to Promote.hs would
> > break peoples’ setups.
> 
> Hm. I put this in my local config - by I think this is something that 
> should be in XMonadContrib. I don't know about the xmonad development
> policy about backwards compatibility, but it sounds more 'clean' to me
> just to rename DwmPromote to Promote and add a new 'cyclePromote' or 
> 'pushPromote' (wheee, finding a good name is sometimes not easy :-(().
> 
> What is the 'normal' process in such a case? Make it clean and break 
> configs? Or better add another module?

If there's an argument that some people might use the old behaviour,
better to have a new module.

We can then deprecate it, and remove it in the next release.

-- Don