Haskell window management has arrived
As a fan of lightweight tiling window managers, such as Ion, I was rather pleased to learn about the forthcoming xmonad window manager yesterday. Its written in Haskell and aims to stay less than 400 lines of code. While having such a minimal footprint isn't an absolute must for me, it will make it easy to add the extra things that it lacks if I like.
Now if it were only possible to write new window managers for MacOS X and Windows.
Karl said,
April 13, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Tempting… if only I preferred lightweight window managers.
washburn said,
April 13, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Have you tried one?
Karl said,
April 13, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
Not recently, but back in undergrad I used more than my share of Unix machines with only odd collections of window managers. Also I like all those silly Gnome features more than I should.
washburn said,
April 13, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
I challenge you to use Ion3 for a a few weeks and not like it.
kitby said,
April 14, 2007 @ 8:36 am
Heh, if I had a Linux box, I might take you up on that challenge. The only window manager I have used and have not felt horribly compelled to throw out the window after some period of time is the one OS X uses.
washburn said,
April 14, 2007 @ 10:10 am
You have that Linux box on your desk in the office…