Re: [xmonad] Splitting into xmonad-core/xmonad/xmonad-contrib; WAS Small announce about the completion of the bluetile merge

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 03:55:08PM EST, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Spencer Janssen wrote:

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I don't see the point of adding another package, what problem does it really solve?  Some of the arguments for adding a third package border on intellectual dishonesty: we can't claim that xmonad is the same minimal window manager if we quadruple the lines of code used in the default configuration.

If we're going to throw around phrases like 'intellectual dishonesty', then I submit that presenting the current xmonad-core as anything more than a demo is dishonest. Does anyone use xmonad-core without any customizations? Or without anything from xmonad-contrib?

I'm a newcomer to xmonad, with no knowledge of Haskell. xmonad 0.8 as shipped by debian squeeze let me do everything I needed without additional customization. It took my fingers about an hour to learn the well-thought out default keyboard actions and in terms of window and workspace mangement, there was absolutely nothing I wasn't able to do more efficiently than on any desktop or WM I have tried so far. Minimal customization: 1. I changed the terminal to 'xterm -u8 -tn xterm-256color' 2. I added a minimal xmobar: date, CPU%, THRM, weather, %mem, %swap But I could have lived without these. I can't think of anything that needs to be added to the minimal xmonad configuration. Just the impressions & opinions of s/o new to xmonad. CJ