Breaking backwards compatiblity

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:23:11PM +0100, so wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 17:51:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> >Then again, I never believed in the desktop metaphor, and have never
> >seriously used Gnome or KDE or any of that fluffy stuff. I was on
> >VTWM until I decided ratpoison (a mouseless WM) better suited the way
> >I worked.
> 
> I am also using light window managers. Most of the time only tmux
> and gvim running. I tried many WMs but if you are using it
> frequently and don't like falling back to windows and such, you need
> a WM working seamlessly with GUIs. Gimp is one. (You might not
> believe in desktop but how would you use a program like Gimp?) Now
> most of the tiling WMs suck at handling that kind of thing. Using
> xmonad now, at least it has a little better support.

I don't use tiling WMs.

And frankly, Gimp's multi-window interface (or OpenOffice, I mean,
LibreOffice, for that matter) is very annoying. That's why I don't use
gimp very much. I just use command-line imagemagick tools to do stuff.
And when I need to generate complex images, I use povray. :-P (Or write
my own image generating algos.) But I don't do much fancy stuff with
images anyway, otherwise I would've figured out a way to make gimp work
nicely.

But on the point of WMs, the only *real* GUI app that I use regularly is
the browser. (And Skype, only because the people I want to talk to are
on the other side of the world and they only have Skype. But this is
only once a week as opposed to every day.) I pull up OpenOffice /
LibreOffice every now and then, under protest, when it's *absolutely*
necessary. Pretty much everything else I do in the terminal. So I don't
really use any "desktop" features at all anyway. That's why I like
ratpoison: maximize everything, no overlapping/tiling windows, and
keyboard controls for everything.


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