On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:44:55AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi. > > Amruth Chand wrote: > > Hey, why ain't anyone bringing in dwm? Sure, no config is a > > bummer... > > That's the point probably. > > > But just a few thousand lines of code sure makes it compile fast. > > Having to configure a software in C is probably worse than having to > configure it in Haskell or Lua. Never tried xmonad or dwm (for more > than a few minutes) though. > > My WM history: twm (a few months in 1995), tvtwm (maybe a year), FVWM > 1+2 (ca. 15 years), Ratpoison (ca. 4 years, but only on small screens, > i.e. the 7" EeePC 701), and Awesome 2+3 (Slightly over 5 years now, > started in parallel to Ratpoison, just for all bigger screens. I > wanted a usable Tiling WM for big screens and multihead after having > tasted tiling blood with Ratpoison. FVWM's SmartPlacement suddenly > wasn't good enough anymore.)
If we're going to list WM histories... enlightenment 16 for several years (until someone tried to fix its bugs and introduced more), ion3 for a few weeks (until I realized that it's a bit too extreme for my taste), gnome 2 (until a few weeks after a major release update back in 2005 where I realized that the gnome people have the weird idea that *removing* features is a good idea), icewm ("temporarily", which turned out to be for about seven years or so), and awesome (which I still use, with no reason to switch to somehing else so far -- and yes, at 3.5 :-). > My setup with Ratpoison and Awesome (and already some i3 stuff) can be > found at https://github.com/xtaran/ratpoison-desktop. (The repository > name is owed to its history: it started as a ratpoison-only setup.) Never did the "commit setup into git" thing. Not sure what the benefit is... in my case, it's just a 10-line .xsession and some config files, anyway... > I also remember having used Sawfish with GNOME 1 on a single computer > for a while as well as KDE 3 or 4 on a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD box in its > early days. But back then I always came back to FVWM after some time. Never did the gnome 1 thing. Just didn't seem to make sense to me at the time. -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12