On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Limestraël <limestr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, the xmonad approach is very neat, but I see 2 major (IMO) drawbacks to > it: > 1) The end-user has to have GHC, and all the necessary libraries to compile > the configuration > 2) A scripting language should be simple and QUICK to learn : Haskell is > clean, powerful but its learning takes time
For basic customization, many XMonad users (judging by questions on #xmonad) have little to no Haskell experience and get by. Further, it's easier to step down the power than to increase it; because we use Haskell, it's possible to have simpler configuration options like xmonad-light* * http://braincrater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/announcing-xmonad-light/ isn't a very good explanation of xmonad-light, but I don't know of any others -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
