On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
[...] 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.
Well, for me the ability to customize the tile layout is pretty high in priority, as are tabs. Of course, you may say it's my fault for considering switching to a window manager modelled after one that I dislike, but there it is. After that, I'd be interested in a decent input prompt (which dmenu is not). Ion's is better, but I'd rather figure out how to make use of an actual bash shell, as the tab completion of ion's query box is annoying (but better than nothing). I guess with those changes (which I understand are pretty huge), xmonad would have pretty much caught up with ion3 in functionality that I care about. Oh, and the ability to customize treatment of windows. I don't want xclock to ever get the focus, for instance, and would prefer if I could stick the stupid korgac control panel application somewhere where it'll never be seen, and at a minimum to avoid giving it focus. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net