[xmonad] XMonad.Config.Prime, a monadic config syntax

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Can you say a bit more about exactly why TH is required?  I get that
> fclabels depends on it, but why do you have to turn on the
> TemplateHaskell flag in your xmonad config?  (I haven't actually
> looked at the code.)
>

There's a splice and a quasiquoter used to add smartBorders to the layout.

> +-- > main = xmonad $ do
> > +-- >   modMask =: mod4Mask
> > +-- >   normalBorderColor =: "#222222"
> > +-- >   terminal =: "urxvt"
> > +-- >   manageHook =+ (isFullscreen --> doFullFloat)
> > +-- >   $(modifyLayout [| smartBorders |])
>

This strikes me as somewhat unfortunate, but it's possible that we can't do
better given that layouts are rather ugly type-wise currently.  (I have a,
possibly several, layout modifiers that are stuck waiting for me to figure
out if I can characterize their types properly.)

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