Re: so, what now?

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 03:52 +0400, Mikle Krutov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 12:54:31AM +0200, M Rawash wrote:
> > now that tuomov has finally severed his last remaining connection with
> > ion, what do we (committed ion users) do now? 
> > 
> > I spent the last few days committedly trying out other WMs, and i can
> > say this with absolute certainty: there's nothing out there that's even
> > comparable! (the closest thing i could find, in terms of
> > what-you-can-do, was 'awesome', but it subscribes to a very different
> > philosophy than ion's, and is kind of a mess)
> > 
> > so, I need to hear some ideas about the future of this project (not
> > simply suggestions for other WM's; i will NOT switch to anything that's
> > currently on the market, and that's my final decision!), I do have a few
> > ideas of my own, but i want to know what everybody else thinks; after
> > all, I'm just new-comer compared to the majority of the remaining users
> > here (been using Ion for only a few months now), I don't know anything
> > about the community (or what's left of it), how it works, or how the
> > author's actions affected it. so i think it's best of somebody else took
> > the initiative and got this conversation going...
> Firstly, why not to fork ion3 to add needed functionality? (i do not
> know is there any 'no forks' etc in it's license because the ion3's
> page is down)

The last version of the licence can be seen at:

http://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb?p=ion3.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE;h=fdfa652c68cd5d06ec2383e7ea4429e6dc5cb4d0;hb=e3aec18706513a87eaa7839dfdaf7e0fcd0d8d2a

You can fork it but then you must rename it.  Tuomo said in the past
that this included functional use of the name 'Ion' such as in the
installation directories.  This restriction was introduced in the
copyright licence of ion-3rc-20070506; if you fork an earlier version
then you should only have to consider trademark rights.

> Secondly, there was some project like 'ion3 with scripts in python but
> without tuomo', unfortunately i can not give you it's name or link to
> it. It was dead when i lurked about it, but it has no licensing
> problems - so you can just fork it and write the code you need. 
[...]

Qtile?  wmii?

There's a long list of tiling window managers at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#List_of_tiling_window_managers_for_X>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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