Alex Tarkovsky
Ideally a GUI-based configuration utility could be offered -- xmonad is
Practically, that's nearly impossible. Just imagine how it could be done to actually using a GUI-based configuration utility to do all the work of Emacs lisp.
an X11 application after all. If designed well, it could capture the flexibility of Config.hs. As for text file
Take an example of a window manager. There is not a useful GUI-based utility to configure FVWM. Only those window managers that have really few choices for users may have a beautifully designed utility. But those are barely configurable.
based configuration, the traditional UNIX option=value style is probably too limiting, so I concede that
I second that, since the option=value style is likely to introduce a new language -- most of the programs are moving to XML, though.
Config.hs should probably stick around for the more intrepid users.
It would be possible to make a GUI-based utility to configure some simple behaviours through some variables. However, maintaining a Config.hs file is indispensable to make xmonad highly configurable.
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