[xmonad] Announcement: Bluetile

[Jan Vornberger]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:08:22AM -0400, Kyle Murphy wrote:
> If you don't think it's straying too far off topic, or too time consuming
> would it be possible to get a brief summary of the kinds of changes you
> needed to make to xmonad? I'm particularly intrigued by those title bars you
> have on the windows as it would be nice to get something like that on
> floating windows or in certain kinds of layouts with plain vanilla xmonad
> (and yes, I'm aware of the tab bars).

Unfortunately the decoration is the one part, which right now isn't very
modular at all. So if you would use Bluetile's decoration, it would
probably pull in a bunch of stuff that you may or may not actually want.

But what kind of decoration are you looking for? Do you also want those
'buttons' for minimizing, maximizing and closing? Because then,
obviously, you would also need the layout modifiers that minimize and
maximize.

Or do you only want the decoration without those buttons? Then it's not
much different from what is currently in XMC.Layout.Decoration (expect
for a bunch of improvements to make decoration work better in a
dual-head setup. I don't know if you have such a setup?)

One more thing: This won't work on floating windows. The decoration is a
layout modifier, so will only affect windows that are managed by a
layout (which floating windows aren't).
Those 'floating windows' you see on Bluetile's screenshots is the effect
of an extra floating/stacking layout. Bluetile discourages the use of
the floating layer and instead provides this extra layout. It's a little
bit like XMC.Layout.SimpleFloat but much improved - again especially for
dual-head setups - but requires a modification to xmonad core (the
PositionStore).

Regards!

Jan