awful.widget: Add an helper to set a property on all template widgets

With this helper, it becomes possible to avoid manually setting common
properties such as the client in the tasklist of tag in the taglist when
the children widgets of the template have a set_+property_name.
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Emmanuel Lepage Vallee 2019-03-06 22:20:14 -05:00
parent e79a5c5988
commit d5a2fe0072
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@ -91,6 +91,19 @@ local function default_template()
} }
end end
-- Find all the childrens (without the hierarchy) and set a property.
function common._set_common_property(widget, property, value)
if widget["set_"..property] then
widget["set_"..property](widget, value)
end
if widget.get_children then
for _, w in ipairs(widget:get_children()) do
common._set_common_property(w, property, value)
end
end
end
--- Common update method. --- Common update method.
-- @param w The widget. -- @param w The widget.
-- @tab buttons -- @tab buttons