gwern0@gmail.com writes:
a status bar requires a fair bit of configuration already [...] - you can happily use a status bar without being able to toggle it (right?), so this is for a subset of a subset of users already...
In my opinion it's pretty much so. I don't remember ever toggling the gap (intentionally). Actually, I even added the shift modifier to the bindig to make it available to Emacs. I'm on a laptop with no windows keys, but those keys are almost impossible to reach when touch-typing on any keyboard, so I let then alone on my desktop setup as well. Xmonad and Emacs can both use Alt without much problem, becase one can use Esc as a substitute in Emacs. Which is good enough for me.
The dmenu binding will stay -- users must be able to launch programs out of the box. Perhaps we can remove the gmrun binding, does anyone actually use it?
I don't think I've seen anyone use it.
Just to add a data point: I don't use it either.
As for dmenu: there's no more reason to think dmenu is installed than, say, gmrun or XMC's ShellPrompt.
Don't forget that most people are supposed to install Xmonad via their distributions' package manager, which does take care for such dependencies, if the respective Xmonad package declares them. Those who compile from source can be expected to read the documentation, which hopefully contains a hint for this.
Mon Jan 7 11:23:57 EST 2008 gwern0@gmail.com * Config.hs: implement my suggestion to make 'n' bind to next window
We already have several bindings for this -- it seems counter to your "war on keybindings" to add a third binding to the same action :P
Well, would you like it better if I removed the second binding instead? :) I like Tab personally...
I think the present double binding is good enough: j/k is convenient and historical, Tab is historical. Wasting one more binding for the same function seems... well, a waste. Even though the corresponding Emacs function is not too useful by default, so I don't feel too strongly on this. :) -- Thanks, Feri.