On Saturday 20 August 2011 16:49:30 Teika Kazura wrote: > Hi, dear Sawfish users. > > Recently I've coined the word "extensible window managers". It > should've been invented long before, but unfortunately I may be the > first. > > Anyway Sawfish is the first of the category. Then StumpWM appeared, > and recently Awesome and Xmonad have some popularity. > > I think it's worth comparing them, so I created a page for it: > http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Comparison_of_extensible_window_managers > > What's the features that make Sawfish superior to them? If you know > any which is missing in that page, please tell us. Once we're well > equipped, I'm going to ask other extensible WM's community. > > # I've written a bit in Wikipedia, too, and tried to put a link to > # that page, but external links to wiki pages without good history are > # automatically reverted. It's reasonable. > > Teika (Teika kazura) >
Hi Teika, other things you might consider in your comparison: - FDO-Menu support (many people use menus, if the WM doesn't provide one, they look for some panel wich offers one) - EdgeActions (from the current way of development they gain a lot of attention, Windows, GNOME-Shell/Mutter, Sawfish, KWin all got them we are actually unbeatable in this regard in both functionality and flexibility (with HotSpot/HotMove everything is possible, you could even write a whole GTK+ app as EdgeAction) all we need is HotSpot/HotMove with real function support rather than defvar-setq/lambda, but that's on TODO for 1.9 - WMaker dockapp support? WMaker development stalled, *box WM fully support dockapps, Sawfish support exists, but Alexey can't finish it. - Other things of interesset: Tiling, WindowRules, Desktop-Integration... - Fluxbox. You may consider adding this one to your list, is also configurable and the most popular in the list (your list). Regards, Chris --- -- Sawfish ML
