With the latest release, we’ve introduced i3-WM to our installer and I know there are a lot of WM or minimal desktop fans over here, so we are asking for your help.
To complete our choices in the Calamares installer we would like to offer more WMs.
So, are you an avid user of WMs or you want to challenge yourself by helping us, please let us know.
These are the DE and WM we are thinking about:
Openbox
BSPWM
Herbstluftwm
Enlightenment
Sway
DWM
And ideas to improve
i3-WM
We’ve planned our next major release on July 15th, our first birthday, so it would be nice if we could present either one of the above in that release.
EDIT
The set-up mustn’t be too bloated and must not contain too much AUR packages. The purpose is to give the user a nice and small starting ground to explore the DE or WM further.
someone told about calamares didnt worked, asked have accesibilty on install point. Also i dont think calamares stil not there on the point for that. As on developer just to look if its possible then promise to put in can always look later. installing accesibilty from online scrip is there but if you cant installed is oter thing, but calamares is not on point i believe, even got a question from a linux user.
i do some testing on screenreader and other stuff but this is not that easy to setup… i think it could be a project for long term to start with an extra ISO and getting this working… and there are already others out there specialized on that: https://talkingarch.tk/ https://wiki.vinuxproject.org/
plus the big ones like ubuntu fedora suse doing integrate this already
As accessibilty on iso is possible, but calamares is different story, so just in developers atleast to look how far is possible. feedback on that is always good gives atleast some answers.
dwm is unfortainly from aur is currently also unpractical
if there is some Awesome lovers they can always bring in there setup for ideas is also not a easy thing but for starters can be ok
I would like Openbox. I have switched from xfce to Openbox on my main computer, with i3 as a secondary option. I would be interested in your version. I also use polybar instead of tint2 (openbox) and i3Bar in i3. Polybar takes some configuring but the documentation is very good and there are a lot of modules to use.
I’m another fan of Enlightenment for old hardware. Something you might want to consider however is Bodhi forked enlightenment(E17) to make the Moksha Desktop (which is much more stable) because the enlightenment developers kept making changes that broke things then telling users x problem is fixed in y commit on the git version which does absolutely nothing for people who don’t want to run the git version. Moksha would give you many advantages and if you decide you are going for enlightenment please consider moksha as a more stable alternative.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Enlightenment - it’s always intrigued me. However they always seem to be in Beta release, so maybe that might not be a good idea.
As for improving i3-WM: probably just leave the key bindings the way other i3-WM OSes use (just like DistroTube reviewed).
Thanks! I think we need the help. Any settings/recommended package selections/extensions etc. (preferably without AUR stuff if possible) are very welcome. And some sense of minimalism is also good, is order not to make it too complicated to maintain.
