On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:21:26AM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
I'm tabling this one for now, because: - xmonad is in a feature freeze until 0.1 (coming soon) - it warrants a good discussion about the aim of xmonad (features, minimalism, etc).
Agreed. Hopefully we (you?) can come up with a minimal core
David Roundy
nevertheless sufficiently extensible that a suitable Config.hs file can do anything a reasonable person would want. -- David Roundy
Yes, definitely. I think the best idea would be to have that stable extensible core, and let people swap around variants of Config.hs, perhaps including the better ones in the repository. ie, you could have a Ratpoison-style Config.hs, an Ion style Config.hs, etc. I think the editor yi does something similar with different keymap personalities for the emacsers & vimers among us. The question is, what's left to add? Right now, the biggest lack which I can identify in Xmonad as compared to my old Ratpoison/Stumpwm setup is the lack of any sort of status bar or display area where I can dump the output of 'top -n 1' or 'uptime' an' so on. Input seems handle-able by dmenu (despite a bad habit of changing apostrophes to backticks) and similar programs so output is the problem. (Although, I'm not entirely pleased with Config.hs since it keeps changing and inducing conflicts, but I suppose that's what I get for changing a lot of defaults and adding stuff.) -- Gwern Inquiring minds want to know.