From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:13:36 -0400 From: a@9srv.net Message-ID: <84315c5350862c9cde01bc62af914c57@9srv.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie - wassup everyone? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45382f86-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 // What do you guys think? Generally, I think you'll find the answer is "we quite like it". The main reason it is the way it is (and, talking about just the UI, it's more or less been this way since 1989) is that folks who become familiar with the system generally find it quite powerful. You talk about "sleek", and in the sense of "minimal waste", rio very much is. What is isn't is shiny. And I suspect you'll find relatively few people on this list who'd rather rio look more like OS X. There's plenty of room for experimenting in wms (I've been an advocate for some variation of the "alternative wm" project in GSoC for years now), but I suspect you'll get very little traction focusing on issues of insufficent glitz. Anthony