[xmonad] Patch: X.H.FadeInactive and X.A.GridSelect

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Jesper Reenberg
<jesper.reenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> X.H.FadeInactive:
> Attached is my previous patch, which seems to have been stranded. Anyways
> there don't seem to have been any objections.
>
> X.A.GridSelect:
> * Fixed X.A.GridSelect to be consistent in the way it (now) sorts the shown
>   elements when modifying the searchString.
>
>   The implemented ordering sorts based on how "deep the needle is in the
>   haystack", meaning that searching for "st" in the elements "Install" and
> "Study"
>   will order them as "Study" and "Install". Previously there was no ordering
> and
>   when using GridSelect to select workspaces, the ordering was not
> consistent, as
>   the list of workspaces (if not modified manually) is ordered by last used.
> In
>   this case either "Study" or "Install" would come first depending on which
>   workspace was last visited.
>
>
> By not having it consistent, it really fucks with muscle memory.
> I'm open for other ways of sorting the elements when the searchString is not
> null, however sorting them in the order of "the depth of the match" seems to
> be very intuitive, as I (and others I have talked to) tend to write the
> first letters of the word that is searched for.

If no one objects, I will push in 7 days.

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