[xmonad] contrib darcs patch: BinarySpacePartition update

Brent Yorgey byorgey at gmail.com
Thu May 28 21:39:42 UTC 2015


I was just going to apply this patch but for the record, it looks like it
has already been applied.

-Brent

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:31 AM Anton Pirogov <anton.pirogov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this patch makes the actions in BSP layout more consistent and usable,
> making Equalize and Balance work locally and also allowing to open new
> windows at arbitrary positions:
>
> Equalize/Balance now only rearrange the currently focused node instead of
> the whole layout (e.g. you want to keep some windows like they are but only
> want to rearrange a deeply nested branch).
>
> New windows now are inserted into the currently selected node, so e.g
> focussing the root (everything) and opening the window will make the new
> window take half of the screen (not possible  or very cumbersome before).
>
> Also a new feature is added - now it is possible to select a window or
> group of windows (first FocusParent, then SelectNode) and "cut&paste" the
> selected window(s) into some other location in the layout (again,
> FocusParent to the destination, then MoveNode). This will split the node
> focused and put the selected window(s) there.
>
> The reason for this was that more elaborate rearrangements that I
> sometimes wished for were simply not possible just with regular window
> swapping.
>
> Best regards,
> Anton
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