[xmonad] restackWindow / raiseWindow

[Jochen Keil]

On 07.02.2013 16:36, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Jochen Keil <jochen.keil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So far, so good, yet it doesn't work. The reason lies in Operations.hs,
>> specifically in the "windows" function:
>>
>>   io $ restackWindows d (map fst vs)
>>
>> This makes all my efforts useless. For now I've put the raiseWindow line
>> into the logHook where it works, but I think this is not the right place.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to improve this? Would a patch for making the
>> restacking behaviour configurable be accepted?
>>
> 
> I can't find the original bug where I proposed changing the above to
> raiseWindow the focused window instead of hammering the entire z-order; but
> I reference it in <
> https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=346#c13 >.  But that
> change would fix or mitigate a number of issues, and probably make the
> floating layer issues a bit more tractable.
I couldn't find the bug report either. However, I think it all boils
down to simply removing the restackWindows line.

> It could (and probably should) be argued that stacking belongs in the
> layout, probably by a new field which existing layouts would default.  A
> global change to the stacking policy would then be a layout modifier along
> the lines of avoidStruts or smartBorders, plus custom layouts could also
> replace it at need.

Something atop runLayout? Like so:
makeLayout :: Maybe ([a] -> X [a]) -> Workspace WorkspaceId (layout a) a
-> Rectangle -> X ([(a, Rectangle)], Maybe (layout a))
Maybe ([a] -> X [a]) would then be a function implementing the stacking
policy. Wondering if that would work without further ado.

A layout modifier would be as simple as the one I proposed in my initial
mail. But making core functionality dependent on a contrib module is a
no-go I think.

-- 
-jrk

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