I love the minimalist and super functional DE at the ~2:30 mark. The colours and visual design is pleasing and not complex.
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Originally posted by StarterX4 View PostA stupid question: Why everyone develops only i3-like WMs for Wayland? Why still there's no any OpenBox/Fluxbox/PekWM-like WM? :v
AIUI, Mr. Devault simply showed up and did the work for sway (and wlroots) and in the process of doing so, attracted numerous other developers.
It is entirely possible that OpenBox et al. might not have the same pull/mindshare and that, by extension, nobody has bothered enough to want to reimplement them for Wayland?
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Originally posted by StarterX4 View PostA stupid question: Why everyone develops only i3-like WMs for Wayland? Why still there's no any OpenBox/Fluxbox/PekWM-like WM? :v
(Shameless plug) There is also this compositor which I'm the primary dev: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire It is already usable and is floating compositor, nothing i3-like. There are a couple of smaller projects using wlroots that are also not tiling, check out the wlroots wiki for a comprehensive list.
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Originally posted by Hugh View Post
What do you mean by "win3.1 style text editor"?
Rob Pike worked on the University of Toronto's version of UNIX ed and the qed editor before creating sam. I assume that those informed his design of sam.
Anyhow, between plan9port's sam and acme you can pretty much get an idea of it all. And if you want a standalone Sam you can look here: https://github.com/deadpixi/sam
Modern and popular tools wise, vis is good: https://github.com/martanne/vis
Personally I feel there's room for a mature, plumbing, chording editor with complex text rendering and highlighters at the very least. Alas, there's an Emacs mode for those so no one will bother making it
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Originally posted by c117152 View PostI'm implying nothing about the lineage but simply referring to that GIMP-like windowing system most people only know from windows 3.11 nowadays.
Functionality wise, Sam uses a cleaned up version of ed's command language with Ken's regular extensions in the same style you find in sed and Acme's Edit command.
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