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maybe I'm just old fashioned or just simply old but I don't get the new trend of using shells. Isn't the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?
to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It's just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I'm tiling, I'm going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that...why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?
Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don't get it and I feel like it would slow me down.
I have mixed feelings about this! Yes, customization is part of the fun, but you need time for this. I think it's easier to be able to quickly have a working desktop with a shell like this. Plus, it's light and maintained, and you can tune it the way you like. Customizing is fun, but there's no need to reinvent the wheel!
Learning about dankmaterialshell today helped me, because I was thinking about switching from sway to mangowc, and I didn't feel like spending lots of time configuring everything for a wm I'm at this point not sure about I will keep using.
I'll still have to configure mango by hand, especially the keybinds (the default uses super, alt and crtl all over the place, clashing with my nvim setup in multiple ways). But if I decide I want to keep using mango, I can still replace some or all aspects of DMS. But for now it provided me with a starting point and I can take my time configuring and replacing things when I need to
Exactly that. Also, I can define everything exactly the way I want. I have a shortcut for screenshots (that allows me selecting an area and saves it in /tmp and also let's me paste it, so I can use it in whatever way I want). It's the key combo that seemed most intuitive to me.
My config is simple and I understand what it does. I feel like I actually understand my setup, which is nice.