[xmonad] Re: runLayout changes!

[Brent Yorgey]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry to keep you waiting, but while getting these changes together I
> somehow managed to completely hose my xmonad twice!  The first time I'll
> write about later, but suffice it to say that it had nothing to do with the
> runLayout changes.  The second time... I'm still not sure what was going on,
> but after rebuilding everything from scratch it... seems to be OK now.  Of
> course, it's always scary when something magically gets fixed without
> knowing why, but hopefully things should be OK.  Of course, if you
> experience any problems, reports/patches/etc. welcome, and so on!
>
> Don, if you can apply all these patches, that would be great.  I could
> apply the contrib patches myself, but of course the core patches and contrib
> patches need to be applied all at the same time or else things will break.
>
> A quick summary of what's going on here: the LayoutClass is getting a new
> method, called runLayout.  By default, runLayout just calls doLayout or
> emptyLayout as appropriate.  If you're writing a simple LayoutClass
> instance, you don't need to worry about it; you can choose to implement
> doLayout, or pureLayout, or whatever, just as before.  However, if you are
> writing code which *makes use of* a LayoutClass instance, you should *only*
> call runLayout, handleMessage, and description: client code should no longer
> call doLayout directly.  If you do, anything which uses a non-default
> runLayout (like PerWorkspace) will break when used in conjunction with your
> code.  For more information, see all the modules that were updated for
> examples, and see the Haddock documentation for Core.hs:  I added a bunch
> of documentation which should hopefully make everything clear.
>
> And yes, of course, this means that PerWorkspace now works with xinerama
> setups!
>

I'd be curious to hear reports now that this has been pushed.  In
particular, I'd be especially interested to hear about it if, after updating
to the latest darcs:

  * Your layouts suddenly stop working or act funny in any way.
  * xmonad seems to crash randomly (there's been at least one report of
this, not sure if it is related to the runLayout stuff)
  * PerWorkspace works/doesn't work with your xinerama setup.

But if all you have to say is "I updated, and everything seems to work
great", I'd be happy to hear that too. =)

Thanks!
-Brent
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