Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sun...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:13:53 To: dev mail list<dev@suckless.org> Reply-To: dev mail list <dev@suckless.org> Cc: <d...@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [dev] wmii falling out of favor
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 12:13:04 PM PST, dtk wrote: > On 12/22/2011 05:54 PM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > I'm another WMII expatriate and I'm still not completely used to > > DWM's lack of on-the-fly tag creation: especially when some new > > random task comes up and all of my tags are currently occupied. > > I'm forced to go to the least important tag and perform my new > > task there while tip-toeing around existing stuff. > > Yeah, well, really don't see me doin' that kind of stuff after I > had a taste of WMII. How could I? Real show stopper for me. I > assume, cls' suggestion of having 32 (hidden) static tags and > renaming them at runtime might serve for a compromise. That whole > static layouts thing, tho... :/ Good point. After seeing people take SLOC minimalism further than the suckless community's beloved DWM (c.f. MonsterWM), I realized that it all came down to *choice* and that I actually had a choice. So I considered the trade-offs between SLOC minimalism, project and community activity, and my productivity in DWM vs. WMII and finally decided to switch back to WMII (which I used since six years prior). However, the experience of using DWM for a month was not fruitless, because I applied that knowledge to further simplify my WMII config. Thanks for not giving up on WMII; you reminded me of its true value. Cheers. -- Depart not from the path which fate has assigned you.
