Braden Shepherdson wrote:
But the principal goal is not simplification of configuration so much as removing the GHC dependency. The target users here are people downloading the Debian or Ubuntu packages for xmonad, who'd like to change their mod key to Windows instead of the massively overloaded left alt default. Whoops, they need to install GHC, get the template xmonad.hs, make the change, and get it compiling. If someone just wanted to "try it out", do you think they'd continue?
But if the process was "create ~/.xmonad/xmonad.conf, and put the line 'modMask = 4' in it, then press mod+q", that's not a big deal.
I don't see why a ghc dependency is a big deal in environments like debian and ubuntu, other than the fact that they lagged way behind on versions until recently. The overhead of installing ghc in order to edit the config is similar to the overhead of installing, say, python so that you can run a python app. Disk space is cheap and package management is transparent these days. I kind of disapprove of there being more than one type of configuration in the core, as I think it will just make things more confusing for new users (and how do you deal with it if somebody uses both configurations? Debugging new users' problems when they show up on irc is that much harder, and thus discouraging). A very minor gui configurator, on the other hand, could just be a series of simple prompts (what do you want your mod key to be?) that address the things people very commonly change. _____ Justin Bogner