Re: inc/dec workspace

On 2008-09-20, Timandahaf <[email protected]> wrote:
> This does what I want, except for the fact that it doesn't update the
> statusbar. (I use statusbar_workspace.lua and have
> "template=%workspace_pager" set). The statusbar does get updated
> correctly whenever I next do anything that would normally update it.
>
> How would I get the statusbar to update after rearranging my workspace?

The hook usage of statusbar_workspace.lua is quite bad. It only listens
to region_notify_hook, which is used to notify of all sorts of changes
(non-structural, aside from setting the manager) to a region, and has
a parameter describing this change. statusbar_workspace.lua ignores the
parameter, thus doing lots of useless work when nothing has changed
that it should be interested in. It only incidentally works, I guess,
because mapping state is notified by this hook. What it should really
do is: a) listen to screen_managed_changed_hook (RTFM for details) for
structural changes, and b) listen to region_notify_hook with detail
"name" for workspace name changes.

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