On 2007.12.22 21:47:34 -0800, Don Stewart
Hey all,
xmonad's reaching a fairly stable place featurewise (and stability-wise too).
Now is perhaps a good time to ask people what we can do to improve xmonad further.
* What things annoy you? * What things do you like? * What things can be done better? * What things are missing? * What things do you miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz * What things do you not miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz ... :)
If you've any suggestions for things we can change to make xmonad better fit your workflow or whatever, please shout out!
If you grumble when xmonad doesn't do something you think it should -- let us know!
With information like this we can continue to improve our progressive window manager :)
-- Don
One thing I'd like improved is tab-completion. As it is, to edit my ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs is currently a bit of a pain. So I start with 'emacs .xm' (to avoid .xinitrc), and tab complete. That hits up against .xmodmap. Not a big deal, I don't use it, so I rm it. Tab again: this time I hit up against .xmonad_history. So by this point I'm at 'emacs .xmonad' and I'm still not even in the right directory! This is because Prompt.hs (which I use) sticks its history into ~/.xmonad_history. This can be improved by renaming to ~/.history_xmonad or moving it into ~/xmonad/. I like the latter solution and I am sending a patch to do that. OK, so I add a /. But all is not roses: now I am completing on 'xmonad xmonad.errors xmonad.hi xmonad.hs xmonad.o xmonad-x86_64-linux'! What? Why do they all have the same exact prefix? This is death on tab completion. OK, we can move xmonad.errors to errors or errors.xmonad (it's *already* in .xmonad, so I like just 'errors'; patch too). That leaves us the intermediate files and the arch file. The same logic can be applied for the arch file - os-arch-"xmonad" doesn't seem like a bad order. As for the intermediate files, I'm not sure how to get rid of them. We could perhaps put a dist/ into ~/.xmonad/ and use "-odir ~/.xmonad/dist/ -hidir ~/.xmonad/dist/" in the GHC invocation, or perhaps -ohi if that'd work, or maybe add in a 'rm xmonad.hi xmonad.o' after a compilation. I'd like them gone, though. -- gwern AMW AUTODIN Veiligheidsdienst covert Center Merlin PRIME SGC *& football