Re: [Notion-devel] Debian packaging

[Matthieu M. <Mat...@gr...>]

Philipp Hartwig <phi...@un...> writes:

> Personally I had never even heard of pwm3 to this day. The man page says 
> that it is identical to Ion3 with the only difference lying in the default 
> configuration file.

PWM was Tuomo's first baby. It is said to be the first window-manager
including the "tab" features, but wasn't a tiling window-manager. Then,
Tuomo worked on ion (tiling mode), and then the floating windows were
added to ion (IIRC, with ion2), so ion became a superset of PWM. I think
including the PWM binary in the distribution was essentially a way to
emphasize the beauty and generality of ion, saying "hey, look, PWM can
be implemented on top of ion by just tweaking the config!".

I don't think it is technically relevant to keep it today.

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Matthieu Moy
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