[xmonad] Announcement: Bluetile

[Don Stewart]

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. :-) 

What does the xmonad team need to do to help you merge this wonderful
code in?