Explain how to customize with Dhall

[georgefst]

dhall would be very cool...

[georgefst]

Started in 5833a12, and expanded since.

I should probably document it though...

[georgefst]

We should encourage downloading dhall and/or dhall-lsp-server, drawing attention to the fact that the config can be typechecked before passsing to monpad.

[movefasta]

Hi, @georgefst ! Explain please how to customize ? What exactly i should to do? I tried to rebuild app with replaced default.dhall in https://github.com/georgefst/monpad/blob/master/Build.hs#L98 but it seems doesn't work

[movefasta]

Hi, @georgefst ! Explain please how to customize ? What exactly i should to do? I tried to rebuild app with replaced default.dhall in https://github.com/georgefst/monpad/blob/master/Build.hs#L98 but it seems doesn't work

i've done it with cli arguments )

[georgefst]

Hi @movefasta!

In what way did changing the build script not work? That sounds like it should. Anyway, as you discovered, that's unnecessary unless you wanted to bake a different default in to the executable - layout configs can be loaded at runtime.

Documenting this is high on my todo list, and something I'll definitely be fixing before I announce Monpad widely. If you've got any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

I've also been meaning to encourage contributions, so let me know if you've come up with something cool. Or open a PR adding it to the dhall folder.

P.S. I've just pushed two changes that make trying out configs a lot easier:

• Layouts will be reloaded on each new connection if the file has changed on disk, so you just need to refresh the web page, rather than restart the server.
• There is a separate executable monpad-layout-test, which will watch a file, and regenerate an SVG output whenever it changes. Many SVG viewers (including Gnome's eog) will auto-reload SVGs, so this provides instant feedback. However, we are slightly hamstrung by Allow loading of any Dhall value as Void dhall-lang/dhall-haskell#1521 - as a result, this tool currently requires a Layout {} {}, and can't accept the Linux-specific Layout Evdev.AbsAxis Evdev.Key.