Suggestion to have xmonad/dwm configuration

[Raj2032]

Would be kinda cool to have an easy way to config your entire project by modifying the source code, similarly to how xmonad and dwm does it. This gives the user much more control.

[Walker-00]

Yea I've plan for that to implement in v0.0.5 or something, when I've completely rewritten sswm's x window manager in x11rb. Thanks for your suggestion.

[mustardfrog]

I always had a mix feeling about the suckless philosophy. (i.e modifying the source code, patching third party source code just to have some basic functionalities).

I mean you can still edit this source code technically, since you have to compile the project to install and use it.

And think about it again. Rust is famous for slow compilation. Do you really want to re-compile in RUST every time you made a change??

[Walker-00]

I always had a mix feeling about the suckless philosophy. (i.e modifying the source code, patching third party source code just to have some basic functionalities).

I mean you can still edit this source code technically, since you have to compile the project to install and use it.

And think about it again. Rust is famous for slow compilation. Do you really want to re-compile in RUST every time you made a change??

That also right, I think I might have to write an interpreted language to config it when I have free times.

[Walker-00]

I always had a mix feeling about the suckless philosophy. (i.e modifying the source code, patching third party source code just to have some basic functionalities).
I mean you can still edit this source code technically, since you have to compile the project to install and use it.
And think about it again. Rust is famous for slow compilation. Do you really want to re-compile in RUST every time you made a change??

That also right, I think I might have to write an interpreted language to config it when I have free times.

Or maybe should I use two method two config, One is by changing extra source code file and One is the Yaml file.

[mustardfrog]

Sticking with just one method is good enough. Consistency is key.

And i was also a bit skeptical about the project vision, which is to make wm for both X and Wayland, which is not very consistent imo.

README states that "Wayland version is buggy", but X version still has huge amount of bugs and lacks a lot of core features of a wm.

I suggest to focus on just one and make it good. I recommend to separate X and Wayland like i3 and sway (you don't have to do it btw)

[mustardfrog]

If you don't want to separate them, you should remove the word "minimal" from the project.

I don't mean to be rude, but let just say i do care about minimalism and want to try sswm, I have to install both X server and wayland related utilities.

so there is just one useless windows manager sitting on my computer doing nothing.

[Walker-00]

If you don't want to separate them, you should remove the word "minimal" from the project.

I don't mean to be rude, but let just say i do care about minimalism and want to try sswm, I have to install both X server and wayland related utilities.

so there is just one useless windows manager sitting on my computer doing nothing.

Yea I'll in about version 0.0.3 or 0.0.4

[mustardfrog]

Ok. very cool.

Quick question. is the spelling in the config.rs, normal_bordar and focused_bordar intentional??

Does it just mean border and you don't want naming conflict?

[Walker-00]

Ok. very cool.

Quick question. is the spelling in the config.rs, normal_bordar and focused_bordar intentional??

Does it just mean border and you don't want naming conflict?

normal_border is the border for window when it's not focused and yea like that, yea I miss spelled those :3

[Walker-00]

And You should ask those in other issue or in some social media, Cuz asking in not related issue is maybe some kinda weird, not being rude BTW.

[mustardfrog]

my bad

[Walker-00]

nah man just a suggestion

[Raj2032]

@Walker-00 No worries mate and thank you mate for taking my suggestion :), sorry for the late response, I completely missed out on the notifications for some odd reason.

Regarding this suggested feature, would it support both wayland and x11?

I can see another Rust created projects does this as well:

https://github.com/mahkoh/jay
https://github.com/sminez/penrose

[Raj2032]

@Walker-00 Hey man, regarding my suggested feature, I was thinking like I would want to suggest possibly the user codiing their config file in the main.rs (like a regular cargo project) and the user just imports the library as with a regular cargo project, rather than how dwm does it by getting the user to code in the config.h file afaik?