Re: [xmonad] Call for xmonad.hs

31 Oct 2008

      On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Don Stewart  wrote:
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gwern0:
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On 2008.10.19 14:13:49 +0200, Joachim Breitner  scribbled 1.9K characters:
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Hi,
Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 21:35 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:
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There're ~30 xmonad.hs's here
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive, but perhaps
1/3 to 1/2 are obsolete or don't compile with darcs XM/XMC (at a very
rough guess). I'd like more.
I can help with that. Do you want more type-check errors, or more syntax
erors?
(SCNR)
For most of them, it looks like they're just out-of-date. My count
includes a bunch of xmonad.hses which never jumped from 0.4 to 0.5,
and obviously from 0.5 to darcs there've been any number of API
reasonable to infer the user is no longer using XMonad (in which case
they aren't useful in considering how to make XMonad users' lives
easier) or are using a different config (and then obviously we should
care less about a configuration even its creator doesn't want to use).
If they're not type correct, moved them to an 'Old' subpage?
-- Don
Followup: OK, so as everyone can see, I've gone through the config
archive and checked everything in GHCi.

I've moved everything that didn't compile into
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive#Old_configurations.
This isn't a subpage, but a subsection. (Of course, with things split
out like that, it certainly would be easy to make it a subpage if
desired.)

In total, there were 20 configurations that worked. Including 1 I was
sent privately, that makes 21 to work with. There were many which
didn't work; some for odd reasons. Sereven's failed because some sort
of prompt theme was defined but not used; 2 failed because a constant
inadvertently had come to clash with a function (I fixed those); and a
good 4 or 5 broke because of the defaultGaps move and related changes.

Later I'll take a look at them and see what commonalities I see.
Offhand, 'cat *|sort|uniq -c|sort' turns out some surprising results:

      3 import Data.Ratio ((%))
      3 import Graphics.X11
      3 import XMonad.Actions.SwapWorkspaces
      3 import XMonad.Hooks.SetWMName
      3 import XMonad.Layout.Gaps
      3 import XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation
      3 import XMonad.Operations
      3 main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
      3 myManageHook = composeAll
      4 import qualified Data.Map        as M
      4 import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
      4 import XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer
      4 import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops
      4 import XMonad.Util.Run
      4 import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
      5 import Data.Bits ((.|.))
      5 import Data.Ratio
      5 import XMonad.Actions.Submap
      5 import XMonad.Layout
      5 import XMonad.Layout.TwoPane
      6 import System.Exit
      6 import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS
      6 import XMonad.Actions.DwmPromote
      6 import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed
      7 import System.IO
      7 import XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook
      7 import XMonad.Prompt.Shell
      7 import XMonad.Prompt.Ssh
      8 import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
      8 import XMonad.Util.EZConfig
      9 import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders

Looks to me perhaps the calls to make NoBorders a default are
sensible. Also, 16 of the 21 configs use Data.Map in some capacity,
which is interesting.

--
gwern