[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#585674: bluetile: requires mod4 key

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Jan,

Jan Vornberger wrote:

> Thx for your input - see my comments below.

Unfortunately I did not see these comments until checking the
BTS just now; maybe they ended up in my spam folder.  Sorry for the
long delay in responding.

> If there wasn't a GNOME panel to begin with, then you just need to use
> GNOME's facilities to add one.

Right, I was not using GNOME.  Joachim: perhaps bluetile should
Recommends: gnome-panel?

After installing gnome-panel and putting

 gnome-panel &
 exec bluetile

in my .xsession, I have the panel.

> Am Samstag, den 12.06.2010, 18:08 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

>> Would it be possible to add an option for switching modifier keys to
>> the dock?
> 
> That's definitely something I would like to provide at some point.

Alternatively, is it possible to learn from X whether the mod4 key
is mapped to anything in the current layout (to switch to mod1 in that
case)?  Please forgive my ignorance.

> Some design thoughts on a configuration system are scribbled down here:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Bluetile/Development#Configuration_system
> I welcome any input. :-)

Thanks; will take a look.

Regards,
Jonathan