Re: [dwm] swm-0.1 - selecting window manager

Hi!

> This is just a personal opinion and a comparision between dwm and swm, I would like
> to see some of these stuff included into dwm, so, i don't like the forks of forks of
> forks if the root project can be enhaced with such features.
Yeah... Some of my changes could also be useful for dwm. But
The whole windowing concept has changed in swm. I believe a
fork is easier to maintain than a patchset in this dimension.

> - I don't like the default border color of the selected window (it is not
> much eye-friendly and a bit confusing)
That's something that must be changed.

atm swm is very proof of concept. I do not know if I will use them
in future or if I switch back to dwm. But for now it feels fine.

Enno Boland
2007/3/14, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> This is my opinion tips about swm:
>
> - I feel more comfortable on default dwm keybindings
> - the manpage is wrong: mod1-s goes to the next window instead
> of allowing to choose the selection (it's meta+a) (typo: Shist => Shift)
> - I like this approach of tagging windows by regexps and grouping them
> by regexped keywords. It's really useful.
> - I like the second master window size (in dwm all tiled frames of each
> column have the same size, and it's better to have a different dimensions
> (master = 70%, submaster = 30%)
> - I don't like to be restricted to only two windows in the master area.
> - I don't like the default border color of the selected window (it is not
> much eye-friendly and a bit confusing)
> - I love the alt+space feature of dwm which swm lacks. (at least by default)
> - I would like that alt+1, 2, 3 ... switch between current defined keywords,
> not between hardcoded ones. This way you can recicle information and avoid
> confusion.
> - Moving windows in floating mode (alt+click+mouse) is broken or does not work
> well at all, because of the center-mouse-on-window stuff.
> - I love the zoom (alt+enter) feature in floating mode (which dwm lacks in latests version)
> - i rather prefer the status bar at top of the screen O:)
>
> This is just a personal opinion and a comparision between dwm and swm, I would like
> to see some of these stuff included into dwm, so, i don't like the forks of forks of
> forks if the root project can be enhaced with such features.
>
> I think most of the features of swm should be discussed and enhaced, It shows some
> interesting stuff, but it needs more feedback and discussion.
>
> --pancake
>
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:55:06 +0100
> "Enno \"Gottox\" Boland" <gottox_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > On monday I've got a great idea how I can improve my environment. As I
> > often use only one window by tag, I considered how I can remove tags
> > from dwm. The result is called selecting.
> >
> > At first glance it looks a little bit oldschool, because one window
> > can only have two states: shown and not shown. But nevertheless we can
> > dynamicly set windows shown or not shown by using regexp.
> >
> > This is very flexible, simple and powerfull. I start hacking dwm
> > tuesday. The result is called swm - selecting window manager[1]. In contrast
> > to dwm-3.6.1 - which is the base for this proof of concept - it saves 209
> > lines. I tried it a little and I think it feels good. What do you think about
> > this concept?
> >
> > Before you try it please be sure you read the swm manpage and config.default.h.
> >
> > regards
> > Gottox
> >
> > [1] http://81.209.164.44/data/swm-0.1.tar.gz
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> >
>
>
> --pancake
>
>

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