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It's nice and were I to use a standard desktop environment I'd be all over it, but I'm too attached to tiling WMs and bismuth doesn't quite cut it compared to i
by Macha 4y ago
It's nice and were I to use a standard desktop environment I'd be all over it, but I'm too attached to tiling WMs and bismuth doesn't quite cut it compared to i3/sway.
As a non default environment for most distros, I think this is the problem they face. Once you get into the people going into the customisation sphere, everyone has their own little dealbreakers like moving a window left repeatedly with keyboard hotkeys not wrapping into the next monitor, or the amount of spacing on titlebars or the way the dark theme handles the settings app
- lproven 4y agoPop_OS successfully bolted tiling onto GNOME. Why not make that an option in KDE?
- Macha 4y agoBismuth does that, which is why I called it out in the post. It doesn't work as well as i3 or sway.
- lproven 4y agoAh, OK, fair enough. Sorry. That was not clear to me, but then again, I do not routinely use KDE. I liked KDE 1.x but for me each successive version adds bloat I don't want. No, I daresay it doesn't work as well as a dedicated tiling WM, but I don't use tiling WMs. :-) I have used xNix environments with just a window manager in the past, and while it works, I am not someone who lives in a terminal. In fact I almost never use them, just for occasional admin stuff, like a morning update run. Apart from that, I barely touch them. So for me, I like the comforts of a desktop, and I don't want to give that up. But I do like tiled windows sometimes, so something that gives me a bit of both is of potential interest, while a pure-play tiling WM isn't.