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> No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. > All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Oh, it's like cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ) for X11. I was wondering ex. how you'd even move windows around in that little code; the answer is "you don't":)
> No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. > All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Oh, it's like cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ) for X11. I was wondering ex. how you'd even move windows around in that little code; the answer is "you don't":)
What's the point of the cage?
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Beware! That's the DSL trap. It works here so well because it's limited to 20 lines and each macro does exactly what it needs to for the problem at hand. Take that DSL and use it over a year to write a bunch of code to do normal things as your app grows into its problem domain and spills over into a few more, and it melts. New developers will show up to onboard to your and be like "WTF is this 'on()' thing I'm lookin…
there really isn't a fundamental difference between DSLs and libraries for the points that you brought up. where it really starts to get sketchy is when you do really funny things with the base syntax (looking at you lisp and rust). if not well thought out they can be fragile, confusing, and a real burden for new contributors. I guess here's a question - do you consider regex libraries to be DSLs?
Regex is a good example of a DSL.
The very essential things a window manager should let me do are: Launch applications (which might create new windows). Switch between windows. Close windows. That sounds like the people who grew up using nothing but a smartphone all their lives. I find that there's an entire new generation of developers (and likely users) who don't understand basic window management at all --- all they have on their huge monitors all…
The very essential things a window manager should let me do are: Launch applications (which might create new windows). Switch between windows. Close windows. That sounds like the people who grew up using nothing but a smartphone all their lives. I find that there's an entire new generation of developers (and likely users) who don't understand basic window management at all --- all they have on their huge monitors all…
When you have scanning eyes, any window on-screen that you are currently not scanning is a waste of pixels. These pixels could display data from your focused window instead.
"usable" is very generous
The very essential things a window manager should let me do are: Launch applications (which might create new windows). Switch between windows. Close windows. That sounds like the people who grew up using nothing but a smartphone all their lives. I find that there's an entire new generation of developers (and likely users) who don't understand basic window management at all --- all they have on their huge monitors all…
I use tiling vm fully (sway) and mostly work in single app full screen, one desktop per app, which is the least disruptive way possible to use a PC for work. You should try it.
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What's the point of the cage?
It's probably for building appliance/kiosk systems, though it's handy for anything where you just want to run a single application fullscreen.
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YAGN more experimental/niche window managers. Windows and macOS get by fine on one apiece, in fact their desktop story is better because their WM and toolkit is standardized. The developers of Wayland (who are identical to the developers of Xorg) aspire to more of a Windows/Mac-like ecosystem for Linux, in which standardization, performance, and support for modern graphics hardware without hacks or workarounds are pr…
> The developers of Wayland (who are identical to the developers of Xorg) aspire to more of a Windows/Mac-like ecosystem for Linux, in which standardization, performance, and support for modern graphics hardware without hacks or workarounds are prioritized over proliferation of niche window managers and toolkits Is that why they arranged things to ensure that the Wayland world would always be split into GNOME, KDE, a…
At least some ideas that were floated early on are deader than dead, like copy-paste as DBus Service