Disclaimer: I am just a suckless software user and enthusiast.
Дана 24/10/26 05:57AM, Raymond Cole написа:
> I suggest considering swm as a new project that borrows code from
> dwm.
[...]
> Finally, has anyone actually looked at things of my projects other than
> the license?
The main question that I, as a user, have is: what does a program do,
what is its main function? If it overlaps with some other program, the
second thing I am asking is: what does it do better? And, having in
mind the suckless philosophy, the following questions:
- Is it more minimal?
- Does it follow Unix philosophy:
- Is it focused in what it does?
- Is it fulfilling its purpose well?
- Does it work well with other programs?
By taking a brief look at swm, I find that it is more complicated than
dwm. If we forget all the details, just the rudimentary
$ cd swm
$ wc -l *.[ch] | tail -1
4450 total
$ cd ../dwm
$ wc -l *.[ch] | tail -1
2871 total
shows that dwm beats swm in SLoC count. Less is more.
"Layout description language", while interesting academically, as a
research project at the university, doesn't have much practical value
to me as a user. The way I'm using dwm is such that perhaps 80% of the
time I'm using the "tile" layout, and 20% of the time I switch to
"monocle" layout, and that's enough to be efficient. I don't feel the
need to even use the "rules" array in stock dwm, I am arranging windows
in tags manually, using the MODKEY+Shift+<N> keys and switching to tags
using MODKEY+<N>.
In particular, I don't see the need to have multiple programs with
overlapping functionality as part of the official suckless software
"suite". I'm fine using dwm and slstatus, thanks. I apply patches I
choose and set my config.h the way it suits me.
What I would like to suggest to you in particular, and to others who
would like to help the suckless project, is to look at the
https://suckless.org/project_ideas/
for ideas about areas to focus on, which are currently lacking and
for which programming efforts would help the most.
