[Xmonad] problems with self-modifying layouts

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 22 10:00:04 EDT 2007


kai.grossjohann:
> David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:
> 
> > P.S. I'd be curious to see implemented a "popularity-contest" module for
> > xmonad once we've got serialization, which could use the logging mechanism
> > to report on the most frequently used layouts.  And yes, this would be in
> > XMonadContrib and only manually enabled.  I have no idea how many people
> > are actually using Tabbed, and how likely this is to break folks' Config
> > files.
> 
> Is this really a concern?  One had to change Config.hs quite a number of
> times already, one more won't hurt.  Given the version number and the
> pace of evolution, it is good that xmonad is not constrained by
> Config.hs API stability.
> 
> Just my two cents,
> Kai

And there's no guaranteed stability in the darcs branch at this point, anyway. 
Move fast, tread lightly!

-- Don


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