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

nzeh nzeh at cs.dal.ca
Mon May 10 04:38:29 EDT 2010


On Sun, 9 May 2010 10:24:19 -0400, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>
wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 01:23:43PM -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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?
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Oh, sorry, somehow I had missed the fact that your module cycles
> *windows* rather than workspaces.  There may still be a possibility of
> refactoring out some common functionality for "cycling through things
> satisfying a predicate" but I'm happy leaving that for later.

This may be worthwhile indeed.  It will take some work, though, to
introduce a unified notion of a Query on workspaces or windows and possibly
other things we haven't thought of yet, which can then be passed into this
unified cycling framework.

- Norbert


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