On Nov 17, 2007 2:42 PM, Andrea Rossato
2. People who know a bit of Haskell and want to get a bit fancier with
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:17:27PM -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote: their
configuration, or write some new extensions.
Andrea, it seems that this is the kind of thing you have started putting in Documentation.hs (starting with the section "Writing new extensions"), but I think this should probably go on the wiki instead. The problem is that I think this document, written properly, will be VERY long!
Well, what I have in mind is a brief (really) overview of the xmonad's internal working with reference (links) to the (quite good, I would say) haddock documentation of the code: main (now xmonad), the event handler, the X monad, and the layout type stuff.
About the last one, I don't know, maybe I'm just plainly wrong, but after the LayoutClass change, with the 0.4 release, I had the feeling that new modules contributions have decreased - we would need one of those Don's graphs to verify this... I repeat, I may be wrong, but I think that all the type class stuff could be difficult to grasp to the coders who could be contributing code for xmonad.
I think that a brief introduction for them could be helpful too. What do you think? Am I wrong with that?
OK, yes, I agree, there is definitely space for a third audience: those who want a little guidance on how to jump into making their own extensions, but don't want to read an entire novel. =) I'm still not sure where such a thing should go -- whether it should go in Documentation.hs or on the wiki. That would be really great I think, and if I had the time I would have
started something like this. Please consider the possibility of starting it on the wiki, I could be helping somehow.
I'll see about putting what I have on the wiki soon. -Brent