I agree with all of your goals (the ace-window / hydra stuff is really
exciting). My only concern would be the toolkit and the work to
support Wayland.
Some thoughts:
* ESPECIALLY agreed on your vi comments. Hillarious!
* Agreed on all of the Wayland comments in thread. Hasn't it been
around
Your point about fonts/toolkit/helper apps is good.
I will point out that some other projects (notably XMonad via contrib) do
have XFT support. XMonad has a contrib module that depends on the X11-xft
library. However, this seems like it'd be a strict dependency on X11 that
would have to at least b
