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Analysing tiling window manager market

jd — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:19:00 +0200

I found an interesting but old analysis from Don Stewart about trends in the tiling window manager market.

I was curious so I tried to make it again to see the result 8 months later.

I took the vote data rather than installed, because it's more accurate: it tries to count people who use the software rather then people that just installed it. And we all know that installing a software does not mean you're using it.

awesome is rising fast. It has overtaken larswm and xmonad very quickly. Now it seems it just kicked wmii out of the game, and the next target will be the famous ion3, which should be deprecated in some weeks.

I'm very impressed. I never though it will happen that way. That stats, so it means anything you want them to mean, but I think it's very cool anyway.

I think that the next thing to do is to beat the floating-only window manager like the *box, etc… An interesting challenge, so stay tuned!

awesome 3 progress

jd — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:25:00 +0200

I've posted yesterday an overview of awesome 3 development state on the awesome mailing list.

To sum up, everything's fine. I hope this summer will see a good hacker-friendly window manager coming out.

awesome developement

jd — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:04:00 +0100

awesome developement is in a very good shape.

We're now more than half way on the 2.0 road. The contributors base is increasing, since there's now 2-3 people regularly sending patches, so this is very good, and the (still small) users base is increasing smoothly.

The awesome core code is step by step rewritten in a better and more generic way. The next big work is tabs implementation, that I am still postponing right now because of the core which is not ready to handle. It needs to become even more generic to not break everything by adding such a feature.

I still hope to release awesome 2.0-rc1 by the end of november.