On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 12:54:31AM +0200, M Rawash wrote:
> now that tuomov has finally severed his last remaining connection with
> ion, what do we (committed ion users) do now?
>
> I spent the last few days committedly trying out other WMs, and i can
> say this with absolute certainty: there's nothing out there that's even
> comparable! (the closest thing i could find, in terms of
> what-you-can-do, was 'awesome', but it subscribes to a very different
> philosophy than ion's, and is kind of a mess)
>
> so, I need to hear some ideas about the future of this project (not
> simply suggestions for other WM's; i will NOT switch to anything that's
> currently on the market, and that's my final decision!), I do have a few
> ideas of my own, but i want to know what everybody else thinks; after
> all, I'm just new-comer compared to the majority of the remaining users
> here (been using Ion for only a few months now), I don't know anything
> about the community (or what's left of it), how it works, or how the
> author's actions affected it. so i think it's best of somebody else took
> the initiative and got this conversation going...
Firstly, why not to fork ion3 to add needed functionality? (i do not know is
there any 'no forks' etc in it's license because the ion3's page is down)
Secondly, there was some project like 'ion3 with scripts in python but without
tuomo', unfortunately i can not give you it's name or link to it. It was dead
when i lurked about it, but it has no licensing problems - so you can just fork
it and write the code you need.
Also, i know that xmonad or stumpwm could both be a good alternative for the
static-frames-with-tabs wm behavior, first only after huge code-writing using
the existing modules (XMonad.Tabs), and second pretty out-of-box - only one
thing bothers me - for both of them i need to learn completely unknowm
programming languages - so i'm stick with ion, too. And both of them lack for
scratchpad-like function, while i'm using it.
But i do not see any argument why i should ever bother finding alternative to
ion, e.g. - it has all the functions i need, out-of-the-box or with plugins, it
is stable, it builds with current x-libraries, etc.
--
Wbr,
Krutov Mikle
