droundy:
Hi Andrea,
You aren't the only refugee from ion3 here. There's me and at least one
For what its worth, I used ion for about 3 years, wmii for 6 months, dwm for 6 months, and xmonad for the last 3.
more (whose name escapes me). But almost all of us have no X experience.
Quite tuue.
I've been hacking xmonad a bit, but really shouldn't be. This morning I was seeing about starting in on a tabbed layout. The trouble I'm running into is that xmonad currently has no code that involves drawing to the screen, so there's no examples to modify! The other trouble is that it seems like we'd need quite a bit of infrastructure to support drawing on
Hmm yes, so contrib modules that do decorations -- we'd need to work out how to do that. The best place to start woudl be to look at ion or wmii, I suspect, to find out the X calls to make, and transliterate t code.
the screen. At a minimum I think we'd need a layout to be able to create "tab" windows and clean them up later, which will mean that the layout needs to be notified when you switch layouts so it can delete the tabs, or at least hide them. And some way to define redraw functions would be needed as well. :(
Hmm. yes.
The core xmonad developers (which doesn't include me) aren't (so far as I can tell) ion3 refugees, and don't have the same desired features. But
Well, I think we're all ion refugees (?), though having wandered over to wmii/dwm for a while.
they do seem quite friendly to the idea of making xmonad extensible, and for anything that can be done in XMonadContrib, we seem to be totally open.
Definitely. Having a single, centralised library of extensions will likely be instrumental in helping build up the user community.
I'm also keen on hs-plugins support. In principle, it's not considered objectionable, so far as I can tell, but dons thinks hs-plugins is too heavyweight for xmonad (paraphrasing from memory).
Right. And we get the same functionality with state serialisation anyway. *But* nothing's to stop people from doing a module loader as a contrib extension!
I'd say that xmonad source is pretty darn easy to modify, and small enough that it doesn't require haddock. But I also doubt haddock patches would be rejected.
And its haddockised, just not generated as such, yet. -- Don