gwern0:
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.
Good work!
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.
*VERY* interesting data. And great vision to think of this Gwern! Might be time to revisit the defaults. Especially if we can gather more configs. -- Don