Making the new system under wayfire look as much as possible like the old x11/lxde system was a reasonable choice, on a greatest good for the greatest number basis. It made things easier for those least able to deal with the many internal changes, and more difficult for those more able to. But, as reasonable a decision as it was overall, it made things personally harder for me. I had done a lot of work on customizing things via scripts, assuming X and lxde, and would have had to redo it all for wayfire, and now hey, we're going labwc. Actually, I had hardly started that transition, even for wayfire, since I mostly do this for under-powered pi's and they were going to stay X for a while. Now, with labwc, it seems that the transition may be possible sooner? I won't assume that I can always stay with X.
I wasn't thinking that every setting be handled for every windowing system, but perhaps those settings that tools already handle for one could handle them for all (modest effort?). And perhaps, add the ability to handle those settings that are done most differently (avoiding the most pain?)
If the tools don't handle the different ways of doing configs,, it would at least be useful to come up with the rosetta stone defining the equivalences. And get that inserted into the official documentation so we aren't all having to discover each one ourselves.
I wasn't thinking that every setting be handled for every windowing system, but perhaps those settings that tools already handle for one could handle them for all (modest effort?). And perhaps, add the ability to handle those settings that are done most differently (avoiding the most pain?)
If the tools don't handle the different ways of doing configs,, it would at least be useful to come up with the rosetta stone defining the equivalences. And get that inserted into the official documentation so we aren't all having to discover each one ourselves.
Statistics: Posted by tinker2much — Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:58 pm
