http://disqus.com/by/rndmcnlly/enThu, 17 Nov 2011 04:44:40 -0000http://www.abtevrythng.com/2011/11/flaunt-your-android-with-ethereal.html#comment-366479155<p>Developer of the original app here--glad you like it, but you'll win nobody's respect with your spam campaign.</p>rndmcnllyThu, 17 Nov 2011 04:44:40 -0000http://overstimulate.com/articles/why-xmonad#comment-6384529<p>Though I can't say much about your actual post because I'm already sold on XMonad on the basis of previous experience, I do have a few points which you might like to have around when converting new people to the path of light----er, dynamic tiling window management. Experimenting with XMonad, as with Haskell itself, can have some mind-expanding benefits even if you don't stick with it on a regular basis or use it "professionally".</p><p>- wrapping your head around "configuration as programming" -- the configuration file implements "main" and your customizations are compiled in, not parsed at startup</p><p>- reducing your tolerance for overlapping windows on the basis of time lost to do window pushing -- if you have a big enough monitor (or set of monitors) you can hand-tile your windows on a workstation you don't control to get some of the productivity benefits of tiling without installing new software</p><p>- (in the case of non-overlapping windows, by whatever means) reaping the benefits of focus-follows-mouse -- you'd be surprised by how much less you click when you aren't spending half your clicks raising, lowering, shading, and maximizing rectangles</p><p>- getting hands-on (or is it off?) experience with window/dialog classes and which programs use them intelligently and which don't -- the ones that don't are the ones you will be constantly tweaking in your conf to get to behave right</p><p>- tricking yourself into learning to at least read Haskell syntax when you might not otherwise -- you can't successfully adapt XMonad to your use case without exposing yourself the Haskell's inherent awesomeness as a prerequisite</p>rndmcnllyWed, 18 Feb 2009 17:19:17 -0000