Re: [STUMP] Revitalizing StumpWM

[Michael Raskin]

>David Bjergaard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know there's a handful (fistful?) of people who are happily using
>> stumpwm, but the git repo has been stagnant for a long time.  Shawn has
>> added me as a maintainer on github and I'm working through the open pull
>> requests as I have time.
>>
>> While my experience hacking a window-manager is relatively limited, I
>> have some ideas that may add some new life to StumpWM.  
>
>Great news, and thanks very much for doing this! More active development
>is a good thing (though I have to admit I'm fairly content with it
>as-is).
>
>My two cents is to consider merging the truetype-enabled StumpWM fork.
>Unless there's a reason why this is a shaky or not widely-compatible
>implementation (and I wouldn't know if it was), it seems like a very
>reasonable thing to have as a core part of StumpWM.
>
>Thanks again!
>Eric
>
>https://github.com/filonenko-mikhail/stumpwm.git

As a user of this fork:

1. It would be very nice to have this in core StumpWM
2. This brings some dependencies into StumpWM (right now StumpWM has 
just one external dependency: CL-PPCRE). 
3. Text drawing is slower with this fork, especially when some character
is drawn after it is purged from cache as too old. As far as
I understand this doesn't affect fixed fonts, but it is something to 
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