> Development of Window Maker (as in the window manager) unfortunately seems to be almost abandoned. The last few years of it's development saw the inclusion of rather superfluous additional features (e.g., screen capture, hot corners) instead of concentrating on it's main purpose of being a window manager.
Hot corners is a great feature and it is in fact part of being a window manager since providing means to move and resize windows is one of the core aspects of window management.
> It's a pity no one ever tried to replace the WINGs widget set with actual GNUstep components
Uh, no, GNUstep is heavy, weird, doesn't look that good (all these smoothed out approximations of the NeXTSTEP look are ugly) and is incredibly buggy and unstable.
> thus adding the full GNUstep themeability WINGs is not capable of
I'd rather see WINGs adopt themes itself than use GNUstep.
> in order to finally get rid of that crufty NeXTSTEP look.
Some people actually like that NeXTSTEP look. In fact AFAIK historically Window Maker exists exactly because the original developer didn't like Afterstep not looking NeXTSTEP-like enough.
Hot corners is a great feature and it is in fact part of being a window manager since providing means to move and resize windows is one of the core aspects of window management.
> It's a pity no one ever tried to replace the WINGs widget set with actual GNUstep components
Uh, no, GNUstep is heavy, weird, doesn't look that good (all these smoothed out approximations of the NeXTSTEP look are ugly) and is incredibly buggy and unstable.
> thus adding the full GNUstep themeability WINGs is not capable of
I'd rather see WINGs adopt themes itself than use GNUstep.
> in order to finally get rid of that crufty NeXTSTEP look.
Some people actually like that NeXTSTEP look. In fact AFAIK historically Window Maker exists exactly because the original developer didn't like Afterstep not looking NeXTSTEP-like enough.