On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:02:58AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: > I'd much rather see status bar go away entirely and dwm use stdin and > stdout to communicate with an external app to handle tag status. I > don't think ewmh is the answer. I'd like to run dwm as "dwm <> bar" > so that anything can get tag selection status and process it however > it wants, and tell dwm to switch tags etc.
Back in wmii times I was convinced by the fact, that it is a good idea to have tiny languages/protocols between applications and to allow for modularization. Nowadays I disagree, esp. if the bar is such an integral I/O part of the program itself. Not everyone wants to install a separate status monitor program (well if dzen would be as simple as the dwm status bar reader it might be a fair consideration). The bar has been there since very early dwm releases and it is right in my opinion. Hence I don't think it's worth the parsing effort in two applications just for the price of a nice concept. Kind regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
