Gretings, everyone. Many people have probably seen my blog post[1] announcing xmonad-light. It discusses the reasoning behind splitting XMonad.Config.PlainConfig into a separate project, and its features both present and future. Don expressed some concern that too few eyes have seen the code, so I submit the darcs repo[2] for your consideration. Comments, criticism and patches are welcome (darcs send to this address). As I say in the blog post, one part I'm not happy about is the large amount of seeming duplication, all the cmd_* functions to build the XConfig, and the corresponding hcmd_* functions that output equivalent Haskell code. The other discussion is how to release xmonad-light. Depending on when 0.8 is to actually be released, should xmonad-light be released at the same time? Could it just be announced as coming soon, and not hold up the main release? I suspect that work on it (remembering that I'm packing this weekend, moving on Monday and starting a new job on Tuesday) can be completed within a week, to bring it to the point (modulo bugs) where it can be released to binary packages. The more eyes on the code between now and then, the better. As Joachim pointed out, most distro binary package maintainers would rather include the far more powerful xmonad-light binary than the unconfigurable xmonad base binary. Since xmonad-light cascades from xmonad.hs to xmonad.conf to default configuration, its behaviour sans config file(s) is precisely the same as the xmonad binary. So please, comments on the code, and discussion of when and how to release xmonad-light are welcome. To submit my own views on it, I don't want to rush xmonad-light. This is especially true in light of how busy I'm likely to be the next week. I think it best, therefore, to announce xmonad-light as a major feature alongside xmonad 0.8, noting that it will be released in September. I would be careful to make clear when announcing xmonad-light that it is not replacing Haskell configuration, but providing a new alternative aimed at new users. Braden Shepherdson shepheb [1] http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/announcing-xmonad-light/ [2] darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~shepheb/xmonad-light