Re: [xmonad] [jv@informatik.uni-bonn.de: xmonad entry for HCAR November 2009]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Can someone revise the HCAR entry?

----- Forwarded message from Janis Voigtländer -----

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:14:46 +0100 From: Janis Voigtländer To: dons@cse.unsw.edu.au Subject: xmonad entry for HCAR November 2009

Dear Don,

The xmonad entry for the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is already quite old. I had hoped for an updated entry for the upcoming edition. If you let me know, there is still a bit of time to produce a revision. For reference, below is the old entry.

Best regards, Janis.

\begin{hcarentry}{xmonad} \label{xmonad} \report{Don Stewart}%05/08 \status{active development} \makeheader

xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximizing screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a mouse is optional. xmonad is written, configured, and extensible in Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings, and other extensions may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several physical screens.

The new release 0.7 of xmonad added full support for the GNOME and KDE desktops, and adoption continues to grow, with binary packages of xmonad available for all major distributions.

\FurtherReading \begin{compactitem} \item Homepage:  \url{http://xmonad.org/}

\item Darcs source:

 \texttt{darcs get} \url{http://code.haskell.org/xmonad}

\item IRC channel:  \verb+#xmonad @ irc.freenode.org+

\item Mailing list:  \email{xmonad@haskell.org} \end{compactitem} \end{hcarentry}

If anyone wants to do it, the relevant links are:

- http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.7 - http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.8 - http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.9

Quickly eyeballing, important changes include:

- XMonad.Config.PlainConfig (and its splitting off to xmonad-light) - local modules ("Supports using local modules in xmonad.hs For example: to use definitions from ~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Stack/MyAdditions.hs") - --restart CLI option - Util.Replace -- Prompt has customizable keymaps - Actions.GridSelect - Actions.OnScreen - Actions.SpawnOn - xmonad-extra - bluetile

May and thus a new HCAR is hard upon us. New things to add to the list not mentioned in the .9 page: - xmonad-core: --replace flag - extensible state infrastructure in XMC - Markdown manpages and not man/troff - XMonad.Layout.ImageButtonDecoration & XMonad.Util.Image - UrgencyHook performance fix - XMonad.Layout.Groups - *.ZoomRow - *.Renamed - *.Drawer - XMonad.Hooks.ScreenCorners - XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaceOrder - *.WorkspaceNames - *.DynamicWorkspaceGroups - XMonad.Prompt.Ssh provides completions from ~/.ssh/config -- gwern