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Bug#930557: ITP: i3-gaps -- i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm featuring gaps, smart borders, smart gaps



Hi Socrates.

On 2019-06-15 15:11, Socrates Tzagiousis wrote:
[...]
i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept
up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as
gaps between windows


*** Why should it be submitted and differences to the original (vanilla i3): ***

   i3-gaps is a popular fork of the most widely used tiling wm
(vanilla i3), and is used exclusively by many people. It essentially
contains a superset of functionalities to vanilla i3, and its gaps and
smart border features as well as added i3bar RGBA transparency make it
not only more pleasing to use, but easier to distinguish individual
window frames without having to resort to colourful window frames and
title bars as in the original.
   It is included on the main repositories of most major distributions
right now, and for good reason.

Why weren't the changes accepted upstream? Is this really a sustainable fork that has sufficient interest?

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern


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