[xmonad] Add 'browser' to XConfig

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:16:15PM -0400, gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I don't like the idea of cluttering up XConfig with this sort of thing.
> > I'd rather see the terminal pref removed (it seems silly for all the same
> > reasons) than another pref (that's only used in contrib) added to the core
> > of xmonad.
> 
> Well, that would be a second best. Consistency is a good thing here if we
> can't agree to my suggestion.
> 
> I would prefer both browser and terminal; they are both general
> interfaces, they are both universally used (heck, browser might be even
> more common - I could see many people not using terminals though they use
> browsers), and so on. The only other similarly used genres of programs
> are editors (covered by $EDITOR) and mail clients (are mail programs
> handled by env vars?). It's an easy two-line change at its most flagrant,
> and so on.

Actually, the browser is never be used in my xmonad.hs.  In fact, it's only
used by a very few contrib extensions.

> > If you prefer, we could alternately support XMONAD_BROWSER.  Note that
> > putting the browser in the environment would also make it immediately
> > runtime-configurable (well, with a few lines of code in contrib).
> 
> See my other email about runtime-configurable; I think what would
> actually be runtime configurable is my suggestion (make it modifiable in
> xmonad.hs, not the shell configs).

Right, my approach would be configurable either in xmonad.hs or in the
shell.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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