Airblader

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by Airblader 4y ago
Just now saw this comment. That's really neat, pleasure to "meet" you. :-) That naming certainly gave me some headache over the years because it always stuck, and seems to be the cause of all the heated discussions. Anyway, I
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by Airblader 4y ago
The PR is coming from one of the core maintainers, so yes, it will be accepted. It doesn't just implement this specific feature, though. It provides a more general approach for i3bar that enables this and many other use cases. This str
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by Airblader 4y ago
I can promise you that in a decade of doing this, I've made my fair share of mistakes as a maintainer. There's a learning curve to everything, and maintainer burnout is a real thing, too. i3 should definitely work on BSD, there ar
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by Airblader 4y ago
I think the in-person meeting made this a bit easier, but we had been talking about it prior to that, so I think it would've happened either way.
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by Airblader 4y ago
Not supporting vertical dock clients is indeed a limitation in i3, using another dock client doesn't help here.
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by Airblader 4y ago
There's an open PR that will make this possible.
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by Airblader 4y ago
The footnote is that I didn't author the idea of gaps in i3. There used to be a loose patch floating around that applied to an old version of i3. When I came to Linux I quickly got into the unixporn community. After a bit of making Ubu
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by Airblader 4y ago
I think that's an unfair and fundamentally false representation of the discussion on that issue. But I won't further comment on it here.
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by Airblader 4y ago
The pleasure has been all mine. :-)
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by Airblader 4y ago
I see your point (in general terms). But I think people tend to overlook the hidden costs of optional features in terms of maintenance and complexity (in code, documentation, and for users). In i3 we have always tried to weigh benefit again
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by Airblader 4y ago
This will make some people sad, but I'm on Mac these days. I was using i3 until the very end though, and I do dearly miss proper window management. My shortcut setup now is an absolute mess. I technically did run i3-gaps because of som
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by Airblader 4y ago
/r/unixporn is where i3-gaps was born, as a matter of fact. There's a small footnote to this, but I think it's true enough to say it like that.
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by Airblader 4y ago
Back when I used i3-gaps myself (yes, that time is behind me, sorry), I liked the visual clarity gaps provide. And from years of interacting with the community I know many people feel the same way. It just makes things feel less cluttered.
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by Airblader 4y ago
Hi. I'm the maintainer of i3-gaps and also a maintainer for i3. The story of this merge is not only several years long, but a true success story in OSS in my eyes. I took on i3-gaps by taking an existing patch and rebasing it to the la