On 11/15/2011 06:59 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > On Thu 10 Nov 2011 09:29:53 PM PST, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> wmii is cursed. Its code base has grown by factor 3 or 4 in terms >> of SLOC, whereas its functionality has stalled. > > Thanks Anselm. I think I've held on to the past for too long, and > avoided DWM mainly out of disinterest in C. [...] So save me a seat on the > Suckless community van! ;)
outch :/ Actually, there are 2.5 features that make wmii such an awesome WM for me: * dynamic tagging * manual layouts * specifically the stacked layout I tag clients according to the topic they deal with (yess, I have *several* Firefox windows open on different tags at any given point in time -.-), which is why static tagging with a predefined number of tags works really really bad for me :/ I only have 1024x768 pixels of screen space, and permanently displaying unused windows in a slave area is *such* a horror. Being able to swiftly create a new column (or maybe even two) with an independent layout when needed and merge clients back into a single column is such a treat. I could probably do without a whole lot of the features that bloat the code base (been using rumai basically from the start of my wmii love affair, don't need no fancy 9P), maybe even without a config file at all (although rumai is *really* sweet and I sure wouldn't want to do that kind of customization in C :/) but the thing is, DWM just doesn't have the *features* for which I love wmii so much. And for as much as I would love to prefer a clean code base over cosmetic features: Unusable WM is unusable :( Really sad wmii seems to be going nowhere :( dtk
