The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3

Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by spoiler on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:40PM (#34293153)

I like having a small gap. It pleases me to use a Desktop environment that looks like it at least belongs in this decade.

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Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by tekla on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:47PM (#34293228)

I have no idea what this means. What WM adds completely useless gaps between windows?

Both Windows and MacOs do not such thing. How do gaps make a WM look like it belongs to this decade?

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Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by spoiler on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:25PM (#34293624)

I'm not a designer, so I can't really tell you why the little bit of extra negative space helps. Maybe just the fact that a little bit of the background can bleed through makes it seem more modern, and its easier to distinguish focused windows. Default i3 just gives me like... 90iea vibes, but not in a nostalgic way but a regressive way. Maybe it's just a matter of different tastes.

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Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by mo_42 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:06PM (#34293419)

If there are people who like gaps, it's not useless. It has value for them.

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Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by bee_rider on Saturday January 07, 2023 @04:55PM (#34293300)

I’m not sure how we determine what looks like it belongs to this decade, but surely these legacy desktop environments don’t push the envelope or tell us much, really.

I mean if we use Windows as a standard, the way to tell which decade we’re in is by counting the number of totally different UI styles we have, right?

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Re:The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 by mgaunard on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:01PM (#34293370)

Windows XP has round borders, there is no way it can tile without gaps.

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