On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:14:10AM +0200, Henrik Holst wrote: > > I think an implementation of EWMH would make it possible to remove the > > dwm panel (the one that reads stdin and displays it) from dwm code base. > > > > In that way dwm would be smaller (or maybe just break even) and more > > symmetric with how dmenu is fitted to the equation today. It would also > > allowe the user to choose whatever kind of "panel" he or she wants. That > > is an escape and dpanel (or some other name maybe) would not have to be > > counted in the ridicules 2 kloc limit. :P > > > > But seriously, EWMH support with struts and all, should be on the top of > > the list for dwm. EWMH is too important to be left to forks. > > > > Something for 5.0? > > EWMH is evil. I see reasons for people arguing to get rid of the > status text processing code in dwm, but the tagging approach is > a too integral part of dwm which heavily depends on the bar. > > Thus there is no way to get rid of the bar. The overhead > introduced by EWMH and a EWMH-driven bar for the tagging concept > would make the code base much more complex. > > Currently I'm at a stage to reconsider features for removal > again. Esp. DEFGEOM seems to have a lot of potential for > simplification(s).
+1 on status text processing removal (it just eats cycles and makes life harder while trying to concentrate on real work) +1 on keeping a possibility to have the tags part of the bar for people who need it +1 on keeping a way to add a status bar somehow without having it in dwm but I'm not sure how that would be combined with the tags support. As there are presumably Xmonad devs/users lurking here I'm curious how the tags part in http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/b/b2/Byorgey-config.png is accomplished. is it dzen or xmobar which has a way to talk to Xmonad? _it might be remove status bar functionality and add a way to achieve it optionally than to let it be as it is right now depending on how it would be achieved_
