Has the Development of Window Managers Slowed?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday October 7, 2001 @10:07AM from the when-updates-begin-to-slow-to-a-crawl dept.

al3x asks: "When I first got into Linux nearly five years ago, the new releases of competing window managers (like Blackbox, Enlightenment, Sawfish, etc.) were a constant thrill, and great strides were made with every release. I can't count the number of nights spent trying to get that sexy new E build to work, and what fun it was! But these days, window manager development seems to be stagnating. The last stable release of Enlightenment is from last year. Sawfish hasn't done much of anything in months, nor has Blackbox. WindowMaker had a recent update, but not with any exciting new features (it is rock solid, however). Now, verging from the paths of window manager favoritism or "they haven't been updated because they just work," why has development in this arena slowed to a crawl, and what's on the horizon?"

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Re:GO KDE! by zesnark · 2001-10-07 10:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

As I already pointed out.
Re:Enough already? by Jamie+Zawinski · 2001-10-07 10:23 · Score: 1, Redundant

Could it be possible that yet-another-window-manager, just isn't a particularly interesting project to work on any more?
We've had the pre-cambrian explosion, time for the mass extinction.

Absolutely! Now if only we could get people to stop writing IRC clients and curses-based MP3 playlist editors, we might be getting somewhere...
I haven't seen anything in a window manager that interested me since 1993. All I pray for these days is that whatever window manager that gets installed on my systems by default have the decency to put the "close" box in the same place as the last location I got used to, and that it not make me jump through too many hoops to turn off all of the keyboard equivalents that get in the way of Emacs usage.