Having independent components that can be integrated with various window managers and lightweight DE's is the most UNIX-way of combining bits and pieces for fle

Having independent components that can be integrated with various window managers and lightweight DE's is the most UNIX-way of combining bits and pieces for flexibility and builting something for what on other systems one will need heavy machinery of C/C++ libraries and man-hours. Just imagine grep, cut, sed or awk ... as mime/content dependent tools which can be used only with XFCE. This whould be UNIX (dead end) if this thinking of "build everyting your own to work just for itself" attitude has been practiced back then, long ago. Sometimes it looks like past was the better future. I'm talking about things as stalonetray, dunst, xsettingsd, xscreensaver, dex and such ... which can nicely fit in CDE, NsCDE, as well as in WindowMaker, i3, Enightenment, FluxBox, OpenBox etc ...