Since users should not use these functions, anyways, separating them out
seems like a good idea. Plus, one now does not need to scroll over them
to get to the dynamic scratchpad functionality (people may stop when
seeing "DEPRECATED" signs everywhere).
With the extensible state machinery in place[1], we are now able to
seamlessly integrate dynamic scratchpad functionality into
X.U.NamedScratchpad. This is one step into the direction of having a
single scratchpad implementation that can "do anything".
Related: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/issues/591
Related: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/662
[1]: 70d08b82f43057447e8e2479aa515b6db0d199e4
(X.U.NamedScratchpad: Use ExtensibleState to store scratchpads)
Instead of using the scratchpads that the user specifies (as this will
realistically just be "all of them"), create some extensible state for
the scratchpads to reside in.
To ensure that this is done in a backwards compatible way, function
signatures did not change and they instead just ignore the list of
scratchpads given to them and the initialisation is done in the
manageHook, which users already have to use anyways.
This adds a new logHook, nsHideOnFocusLoss, that hides the given
scratchpads when they lose focus. This is akin to the functionality
provided by a lot of dropdown terminals.
This is a convenience module in order to have less import noise. It
re-exports the following:
a) Commonly used modules in full (Data.Foldable, Data.Applicative, and
so on); though only those that play nicely with each other, so that
XMonad.Prelude can be imported unqualified without any problems.
This prevents things like `Prelude.(.)` and `Control.Category.(.)`
fighting with each other.
b) Helper functions that don't necessarily fit in any other module;
e.g., the often used abbreviation `fi = fromIntegral`.
I recently found that I use xpad to add sticky notes to my desktop. I wanted
to be able to show/hide these in the same fashion as regular scratchpads. This
patch adds a function that allows to do this while reusing most of the existing
NamedScratchpad code.
