On 10/16/2009 12:25 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 octobre 2009 à 00:51 +0400, Alexander Polakov a écrit : >> Description : lightweight tiling window manager >> >> echinus is a dynamic window manager for X11 supporting >> managing windows in floating, tiled and maximized >> layouts based on dwm. All the configuration is made >> via config file in Xresources format, so it is not >> necessary to recompile echinus every time you change >> something. > > Great idea. I think we don’t have enough window managers in the archive. >
I think that at least in this case, this window manager is unique enough to justify inclusion. There are surely many tiling window managers, which fall into groupable categories (StumpWM/Ratpoison, XMonad, dwm/awesome). Julien has done a great job developing awesome, and it probably deserves its own category separate from dwm. Echinus falls into the final category it seems, being similar to dwm. And it offers a clear advantage: configuration via .Xresources (does any other WM support this?) rather than via recompilation. I think this gives sufficient reason for inclusion. Regards, Daniel
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