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AdaShoelace / hadlock

X window manager
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Configuration in Rust #43

Closed Brettm12345 closed 4 years ago

Brettm12345 commented 4 years ago

It would be cool if you could configure the window manager using Rust similar to XMonad

AdaShoelace commented 4 years ago

Aside from it being "cool" what benefits do you see with using rust for configuration?

One of the goals of Hadlock was that it should be able to update if the config was changes during runtime without requiring a restart. Using rust for the config would obliterate this completely since the user would have to recompile.

But if you have and example to show I am more than willing to look into it and reconsider if the case is strong enough.

Brettm12345 commented 4 years ago

Take my xmonad configuration for some examples

AdaShoelace commented 4 years ago

I have looked into it and come to the conclusion that config in Rust will not happen. I want the configuration to be data only and also easy to understand.

For now we are going with regular json but depending on serde's support for rson there might be a change in the future.