[xmonad] Issue 558 in xmonad: add xmir support

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Comment #4 on issue 558 by MathStuf at gmail.com: add xmir support
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=558

> the Mir protocol will never be "stable", i.e. that it'll always be a  
> moving target?

Mir has a library which is supposed to have a stable API. The protocol  
itself is an "implementation detail". For Mir support, a Haskell FFI  
binding to libmir (or whatever) would have to be done first.

However, I feel like the core algorithms for window management could be  
split out and then any X, Wayland, or Mir port could just use those and  
then talk however is best with the DM and/or apps. Ideally, xmonad-contrib  
would contain non-DM extensions and anything requiring a specific backend  
could be split off. But that's a lot of work which I don't know if there is  
any interest in doing. I do remember someone wanting to write a  
pure-Haskell Wayland protocol library, but I don't know the status of it.

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