On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, docking is generally useful for panels. Dwm sucks as a status > bar. Should the information displayed in the status bar not be > properties on the root window to dwm? A panel can then keep track of > _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS = 2^(NUMBER_OF_TAGS)-1 (or just > NUMBER_OF_TAGS) and perhaps the current layout.
Panels are a part of a different interface paradigm. dwm does not have desktops. This is another example of software that shouldn't be crammed into dwm. > Touch interfaces don't keep track of a cursor, as hovering isn't > detected. They do thereby suck less than mouse interfaces. Both are > useless for programming and ranting, but are useful for mapping. I can > think of no other use atm. Blackberry's hybrid touch tracks hovering, as do wacom interfaces. Not every touch interface is the same, but none of them are appropriate for dwm. -- # Kurt H Maier
