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>These releases are the last ones that contain Xft support, which will
be removed in the releases to follow. The Xft mess has to be retired
in favour for plain old Xfonts.
>our software wasn't featureless enough, so let's remove even more features!
Suckless is a fucking joke goddamn.
When are they going to realize that 90% of what there software does can be done with 40 kilobytes of forth?
A language nobody uses
damn
Actually seems reasonable to me. If you're focused on making slim sinple software, it's rather useful not to have dependencies on things that make it not slim and simple.
Not supporting a widely used font standard is absolutely inexcusable. Xfonts are arguably an even worse mess than Xft.
>Slim and simple
>Defer everything to some massive demonic piece of shit software that's been with these "muh unix" tards for decades.
Ya, no.
>>our software wasn't featureless enough, so let's remove even more features!
>dwm
>dmenu
they're ok if you're into tiling windows
>st
now that is pretty useful (got some gnulib magic to get it working on my sun)
Too bad it is less suck.
This, I still can't understand why they keep sucking X's dick if they are so concerned with "minimalism".
Time to move to xmonad.
Enjoy you 1GB GHC with dependencies
Enjoy not being able to use fonts.
There will likely be some patch.
No problem, ill just compile the git branch with xft support?
>patches over patches over patches for basic functionality
Watch your featureless garbage become not so minimal anymore.
xft support was a 3rd party patch years before it became mainstream
also, just fork the xft branch u dumbass
>hurr durr just fork your own of you don't like it!
You sound exactly like those trannies that conquered Linux with their CoC(k).
>why they keep sucking X's dick
What other options are there?
Because there is no such thing as minimalism with Linux. No matter how you slice it there is a giant clusterfuck of complicated software and you can only delude yourself into thinking you've found a "simple" solution.
Microsoft Windows™
no i sound like every other sane hacker,
fork your own
Why do normies get so triggered when people make software that doesn't cater specifically to them?
I don't use many patches and I don't need the peak minimalism. I just find dwm quite easy to use. I'd use XMonad if only it didn't need that bloated GHC. Also, configuring XMonad doesn't seem that easy to me. Besides XMonad, I don't see any alternatives.
won't change anything for me
static const char *fonts[] = { "adobe helvetica:size=10" }
static const char *fonts[] = { "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-" }
same thing with less bloat, I don't mind this decision
>font support is now "normie" tier
Fuck off.
aliased xft fonts is normie tier
>wanting any features at all is for normalfags
UNIX weenies, everybody
>you can do this with every font
use KDE then faggot, not everything is made FOR YOU.
I made it very clear it was my case. and the suckless team is making changes that align with my preferences, I don't care about you lol
Same, I use dwm simply because, despite the usual hopeless suckass autism, the core functionality is great: tags are clearly superior to workspaces, and the way it dynamically arranges windows is superior to wms such as i3. I don't care about minimalism either.
However, this attitude of merely dropping features in the name of minimalism is just cancer. It makes me want to distance myself from these autists.
I don't mind the "bloat" that comes with xmonad since I already program using Haskell, but I can understand why it may bother some people.
>Instead of the backend being a bloated mess just make your compositor a bloated mess
great
Oh great, another broken Unicode pain.
>it's not a bug, it's a feature!
When it's Poettering, Jow Forums shits on him.
When it's Suckless, Jow Forums sucks their cock.
>unbased autist
use gnu unifont
would rather rip off my eye balls
I just don't know how to make Xfont to fallback into other font for unsupported glyphs.
dwm makes it easy to set fallback fonts
Suckless distro when? Would it be worth installing TinyCore and just installing every suckless package?
Just install either the first release of UNIX or Plan9. Those are the suckless/cat-v OSes
They tried to make their own years ago, but they hopelessly failed.
> I'd like to interject...
It's Plan 9, with a space.
They tried with sta.li and morpheus but I guess there isn't much manpower to such project.
Plan 9 (9front today) is the pinnacle of general purpose OS design. You'll understand how few wells thought, simple design choices make your os easy to use and powerful
is there a changelog for 6.2? Cause I'm using a heavily modified 6.1 and it would probably take me an hour or two to get everything moved over to 6.2.
>muh minimalism
nice timesink bloat
>expecting a changelog from people who don't even sign their code
well what's new?
dwm has been essentially complete since like 2012.
>suckless coding style guide
Tests and Boolean Values
Do not test against NULL explicitly
Do not test against 0 explicitly
Handling Errors
When functions return -1 for error test against 0 not -1