However, tiling window managers have a solution even for Gimp: This single sore-thumb application can be configured to open in floating mode. Maybe artists truly need their apps designed the way Gimp is. By the way, the painful mismatch between Gimp and tiling window managers is not even among Wolfgang’s examples. GUI apps that do not tile (and reflow) well have not had enough thought and care put into their GUI. For example Gimp (the image graphics programme) opens, by design, several tool windows laid out separately over the desktop. This is true for GUI apps that do not tile well. GUI apps look like crap in tiling window managers Conversely, if the window manager happens to be unconfigurable, there will be no opportunity to improve one’s workflow and opportunity for efficiency will be lost, which makes all work with such a window manager (as found in MS Windows and Apple Mac) an effort that will never be worth it. If the workflow in fact becomes more effective, then the time spent on learning and configuration has been worth it. The purpose is to make the workflow more effective. The learning is less of a curve and configuration is less of an effort when it is in appropriate perspective with the purpose. Getting started with whichever window manager is a matter of installing the distro or distro flavour that provides the window manager pre-configured. In the current state of affairs these issues are greatly mitigated by distros and distro flavours that offer a proof-of-concept desktop experience based on whatever window manager and other choices happen to be the favourites of the developers’ of the distro. Steep learning curve and effort to configure Most relevant apps already include tiling functionality one way or anotherġ.-2.Picture-In-Picture and dropdown terminals.No Alt-Tab or App Overview functionality.Some UI elements are not displayed correctly and require manual configuration.Re-arranging, moving and resizing windows is a chore. ![]() Keyboard-centric paradigm conflicts with apps that use mouse.GUI apps look like crap in tiling window managers.Steep learning curve that doesn’t amount to any real gain in productivity.Tiling WMs take too much time and effort to configure. ![]() But he is a(n ex-)tiling window manager user himself, so it can be just an overstatement designed to poke. Wolfgang on Youtube says that tiling window managers suck.
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