[xmonad] darcs patch: New module XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation

Norbert Zeh nzeh at cs.dal.ca
Fri May 7 12:23:43 EDT 2010


Norbert Zeh [2010.05.07 1310 -0300]:
> Hi Brent,
> 
> I had a nagging feeling that something like this alreeady exists, but I
> seem to remember looking at CycleWS and not finding what I wanted in
> there.  I'll look again.
> 
> - Norbert
> 
> Brent Yorgey [2010.05.07 1119 -0400]:
> > How does this compare with the existing functionality in
> > XMonad.Actions.CycleWS?  Is there a possibility of merging them into a
> > single module?
> > 
> > -Brent
> > 
> > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:39:35PM +0200, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> > > Fri May  7 15:32:26 CEST 2010  Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca>
> > >   * New module XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation
> > >   
> > >   This module allows the navigation of windows by groups, where a group is
> > >   defined as the set of all windows satisfying a specified boolean query.
> > >   
> > >   The first set of functions simply allows the cyclic forward/backward traversal
> > >   of the list of windows in a group, possibly performing a custom action if the
> > >   group is empty.
> > >   
> > >   The second set of functions adds a facility to keep track of the focus history
> > >   of all windows and uses this history to allow jumping to the most recent window
> > >   in a given group.

Actually, I just looked at CycleWS again.  It seems that indeed, it
supports similar things on workspaces as the new module supports on
windows.  I don't feel strongly either way about merging these two.  If
anyone has strong feelings about this, let me know.

- Norbert


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