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the future of xmonad...
by Andrea Rossato 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hi, I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for your great effort. I discovered XMonad a couple of days ago during an upgrade of my aging system. I used to run Ion3, that is the expression of a given philosophy regarding usability, and I'm planning to switch to XMonad (I'm still in the progress of learning and customizing it, and it is going to take some time, since I'm a bit lazy recently). I've been impressed with your design decisions (Don, please keep on blogging on that, you promised a lot in your first post, and I'll be keeping an eye on you!). Reading your code is quite of a hell of a learning experience for me. I'd like to help, but I'm absolutely new to X Window programming - and, yes, XMonad is quite an incentive to study. I thought about making the source code haddock compatible (it could be useful for new comers like me). Do you think that could be useful? I'd like to add support for hs-plugins (I love and use a lot the lua prompt in Ion3, and I've been dreaming about having an interactive Haskell prompt in my WM), but unfortunately hs-plugins does not work with ghc-6.6.1 (I've just upgraded and built a lot of knew exciting libraries, and I do not want to downgrade back to ghc-6.4.2. Don, could you help me with that? ;-). I'd like to start studying a tabbed layout as soon as I'll have a better understanding of the code base. I must confess that by reading the XMonad site though, I had the slight impression that what you are actually trying do, your main goal, is to prove that Haskell, and its tool chain, allows the rapid development of the highest quality of code. This is not going to be a problem, I'd like to see people attracted to Haskell because of the possibility to write real world (I know, there's a book coming...:-), useful applications. This is my own experience after all. But I'm watching for a different WM because the writer of my previous one came to think that people who patch it are infringing its trade mark, decided to change license and started threatening legal actions against community web sites and to distribute the WM as proprietary software...;-) Thanks for your code. Really. Ciao Andrea

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darcs patch: Give refresh sole responsibility for establishing wind...
by Stefan O'Rear 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 11:58:35 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear <stefanor(a)cox.net> * Give refresh sole responsibility for establishing window properties (-3 loc)

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darcs patch: make LayoutHints robust with regard to future addition...
by David Roundy 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 10:37:25 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * make LayoutHints robust with regard to future addition of Layout fields.

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darcs patch: cut incorrect comment.
by David Roundy 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 10:34:47 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * cut incorrect comment.

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darcs patch: doLayout cleanup and commented exception-handling.
by David Roundy 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 07:50:36 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * doLayout cleanup and commented exception-handling.

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darcs patch: Add simple addTransientUndo finalizer me... (and 1 more)
by Stefan O'Rear 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Here is my proposal for a sufficient extension to Xmonad to allow extension modules to add decoration. I beleive it is sufficient, and more general (it allows capture of arbitrary events, etc). It also adds 13 fewer lines than droundy's patch. Conversely it is not very useful alone, requiring a XMonadContrib.Decoration module to be created. Comments are welcome. Sat Jun 9 12:58:14 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear <stefanor(a)cox.net> * Add simple addTransientUndo finalizer mechanism for layout modifications (+6 loc) Sat Jun 9 13:40:35 PDT 2007 Stefan O'Rear <stefanor(a)cox.net> * Add basic toolkit functionality in the form of an extensible list of event handlers. (+8 loc)

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darcs patch: add sketch of tabbed layout.
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

This is pretty crude, but might interest others. I haven't yet gotten the click stuff working, though. :( It does display the tabs, at least (albeit without labels, but that should be easy). David Sat Jun 9 12:42:22 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * add sketch of tabbed layout.

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darcs patch: add new LayoutHints module that makes layouts respect ...
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Mon Jun 4 14:37:16 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * add new LayoutHints module that makes layouts respect size hints.

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darcs patch: doLayout cleanup and commented exception-handling.
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Sat Jun 9 07:50:36 PDT 2007 David Roundy <droundy(a)darcs.net> * doLayout cleanup and commented exception-handling.

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MonadPlus instance for X?
by David Roundy 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a reasonable way to implement a MonadPlus instance for X? And would there be support for this? I was thinking that it would be good to implement some sort of exception handling, so that we could make xmonad robust even in the presence of programming errors in the user's Config file. I'm thinking that use of StateT etc together with exceptions must be an already-studied case... See patch I'm about to send, for example of where I'd like to use this (but commented out, so it'll compile). -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net

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