[xmonad] Announcement: Bluetile

[Jan Vornberger]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:47:07PM +0100, Toby Cubitt wrote:
> What's particularly beautiful to me about Bluetile is the way windows can
> be moved and resized using only the mouse, both when tiled and when
> "floating". Xmonad seems to be designed to cater for keyboard-only use,
> and the support for that is fantastic. But I use Xmonad on a tablet PC,
> so mouse-only use is also important to me. Currently Xmonad isn't so
> great for the latter.
> 
> I'd love to see these parts of Bluetile make it into Xmonad or
> Xmonad-contrib. How easy would that be to do? I guess for starters it
> would need your extra floating/stacking layout...

Those are definitely things that are useful on their own. The floating
layout is called PositionStoreFloat but needs some modification to the
core. For the tiled cases, I wrote MouseResizableTile which is basically
a version of XMC.Layout.ResizableTile that can also be resized with the
mouse. That one should actually be pretty straightforward to use with
xmonad. To switch windows with the mouse, there is a WindowSwitcher
decoration. It needs the big blob of decoration code, that hopefully can
be modularized a little bit more.

I'm working on it. :-) 

Regards,

Jan