gwern0:
So to conclude this whirlwind tour: I see a lot of valuable stuff.
The greeter is something that could definitely be in core (although I think the gtk2hs dep is untenable, so I expect a better idea would be to run an xmessage prompt with a list of keybindings). The dock is a nice alternative to the ridiculously baroque setups for xmobar and dzen - those may be really nice and customizable, but they are absolutely unsuitable for beginners, and even setting up a Gnome panel is a bit much for non-intermediate or advanced XMonaders.
Ok. So a good contrib module.
And the string atom stuff has already been done by Stumpwm/Ratpoison, and I asked for this in the past - XMonad should be scriptable from the outside.
Anyone interested in contacting the developer, and seeing how far they want to proceed with the patch imports? -- Don