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> It's a new one? I guess you are not the target audience of this Windows manager if you are not willing to give it a try and explore the features and the exper
by lelanthran 3y ago
> It's a new one? I guess you are not the target audience of this Windows manager if you are not willing to give it a try and explore the features and the experience before rationalizing it's usefulness
To add some perspective, I am the target audience for a new Window Manager, but I'm still gonna need a goal or mission statement before I try it out.
No need to be fancy, just use one of the following stock phrases:
For people who like eye candy...
A clutter-free, spartan environment
Smart(er) tiling/stacking/workspace management
Lean and fast
Big with tons of value-added features
Highly customisable
"It Just Works(tm)"
A (simpler|more complex) alternative to (Gnome|Plasma|Windowmaker|Xfce)[1]
A (new|old|ancient) way to manage workflows
Designed for (programmer|designer|gamer|salesman) productivity
After all, creating a minimal Window Manager is about 2kLoC (in C). Someone who went to the effort to write maybe 20kLoC
a) Ain't stupid or incompetent in the least
and
b) Must have had a good reason for doing so!
Telling the world that reason can only help - the majority of us support new projects, we don't diss them for no reason (for that, we go to reddit :-))
[1] Yes, I know that some of those are desktop environments and some are window managers. No, I don't want to argue about the difference.
- Beijinger 3y ago>Lean and fast Moksha Desktop....
- drivingmenuts 3y agoI think your assumptions around points A and B are both potentially mistaken.
- Levitating 3y agoXmonad stayed under a thousand LoC for it's first few releases. As for this DE, it's main feature seems to be having a topbar that expands itself on hover. But to me that seems like it's biggest issue. The animation will always seem choppy. And you cannot click anything on the bar directly because everything moves around. And you will inevitably accidentally expand it. It's just bad UI...
- lelanthran 3y ago> As for this DE, it's main feature seems to be having a topbar that expands itself on hover. But to me that seems like it's biggest issue. > The animation will always seem choppy. And you cannot click anything on the bar directly because everything moves around. And you will inevitably accidentally expand it. It's just bad UI... So? I mean, I agree it's bad UI, but some people will absolutely love it. I mean if it was so universally regarded as a bad UI we wouldn't be seeing the same pattern on every third website, would we? It's all different strokes for different folks. Doesn't appeal to me (or to you), but I think there's enough people who prefer prettiness over ease-of-use; after all, look how many people still love their Macbooks, even though it's still got pretty a poor UI.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoA thousand lines of C is not equivalent to thousand lines of Haskell.