Sorry, but I'm really not following the focus of the conversation here. Tuomo explicitly gave his opinions on the direction that ion3 development should be going, so It seems pretty simple to me: Given the options of WMs, you use Ion if you WANT to. Not only that, Tuomo gave an explanation on his choices.
I've tried different tilling window managers, and my 2 cents are: Awesome(3): is becoming huge project and has alot of "enhancements" over Ion but at each new version, the config files change and all that backward incompatibilties arise. Xmonad: Very well written, fast, and customizable. But since it's Haskell-based, you have to install a metric shitload of Haskell dependencies. dwm: You have to recompile it every time you change something. It's just not versatile enough for my tastes. stumpwm, scrotwm, wmii: never tried, will not speculate over those. In the end, it all boils down to how much you want to customize your WM. Then, it's all about programing language taste. 2009/11/18 Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:17:27 -0800 (PST) Daniel Clemente < > [email protected]> wrote: > > DC> To those who feel too limited by ion's complexity or Tuomo's > DC> opinions, I would recommend wmii. I successfully migrated from > DC> ion3 to wmii and don't regret it. The migration is easy since > DC> they're feature-alike, and it's faster to customize. > > Brief summary of my experience looking for a good window manager: > > Ion3: not actively developed, also I intensely dislike Lua (this is a > matter of personal taste). Doesn't integrate with Gnome well. > Installation is easy. Customization is OK. > > wmii (as of 6 months ago): a real duct-tape window manager, lots of > broken advice online because there's like 30 ways to set it up. Once > you get it going it's all right, but you better have lots of shell > scripting experience. Doesn't integrate with Gnome well. Installation > is hard if you don't know what you're doing. I respect the design, it's > very powerful and flexible, but wouldn't recommend this one to new > users. > > StumpWM (as of 2 months ago): pretty good feature-wise, does almost > everything OK, very slow if you don't fine-tune the VM. If you don't > know Common Lisp it will be very confusing. I like Lisp so it was OK > for me. Also it doesn't integrate with Gnome well. Installation is OK > with Ubuntu. I would have loved to recommend this one because Lisp is > so flexible but it's just not for everyone. > > XMonad: really good in every way, configuring beyond the basics requires > learning Haskell. To me that was actually a plus, I like Haskell a lot > but certainly it's not for everyone. This one is very fast, has > multiple layouts besides tabbed (full screen, side by side, etc.). > Supports floating windows, integrates well with Gnome. Extending it is > easy. Installation is really easy with Ubuntu and the docs are good > (lots of sample configs and every module is documented). I'd recommend > this one to people looking to try a new WM, unless they want deep > customization and Haskell is outside their comfort zone. > > Ted >
