Re: [dwm] xmonad: dwm clone in Haskell

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:58:13AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:09:30PM -0700, usrucb_AT_gmail.com wrote:
> > Looks like they're shooting for <400 lines of code:
> >
> > http://lennartkolmodin.blogspot.com/2007/04/xmonad.html
> > http://xmonad.org/
>
> I think it's very cool that people try to clone dwm in different
> PLs. However, I doubt it is achievable in lesser than 400 LOC
> without hiding a lot of stuff into a separate package/lib namely
> X11-extras - which is part of dwm itself ;)
>
> As a side-note: I believe that a higher level library than Xlib
> might be a great invention - something between widget libs and
> Xlib itself, which can be used for drawing and which does work
> with threads instead of a state machine... Such a lib would
> allow to finish simple X apps in a couple of hours and to hide
> all braindamage which has evolved during ICCCM and now EWMH
> times...

Apart from that such lib would increase the portability of
things like dmenu/dwm to other platforms such as Windows...

Regards,

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