Hi, i would like to bring to the table going forward a patch for dwl
itself called the bar patch, which is now upstreamed in dwl-patches
and aims to perfectly replicate the original dwm bar in suckless fasion
using fcft instead of pango and cairo.

I've noticed somebar uses C++, which is not suckless, and is opting to
replace software such as slstatus with harmful alternatives such as a
somebar equivalent called someblocks.

Which is why i would reccomend the usage of the bar patch, since somebar
does not offer features that make it acceptable to be a valid 
replacement,
and nor is it suckless - it is in [harmful] C++.

The bar patch is the simplest solution of all statusbars available, 
unlike
projects such as dwl-bar and somebar.

Am 2024-03-23 20:34, schrieb sewn:
> Hi, i would like to bring to the table going forward a patch for dwl
> itself called the bar patch, which is now upstreamed in dwl-patches
> and aims to perfectly replicate the original dwm bar in suckless fasion
> using fcft instead of pango and cairo.

It's just a patch, not included in dwl itself. somebar is a standalone
solution. I my opinion somebar is far from being obsolete and as an
independent software is far less prone to problems with dwl itself.
Looking at the dwm itself and "upstreamed" 'anybar' patch, your 
arguments
are pretty weak anyway.

> I've noticed somebar uses C++, which is not suckless, and is opting to
> replace software such as slstatus with harmful alternatives such as a
> somebar equivalent called someblocks.

Replacing? This is just an alternative. Despite using C++ is simple and
follows the "do one thing" philosophy.

> Which is why i would reccomend the usage of the bar patch, since 
> somebar
> does not offer features that make it acceptable to be a valid 
> replacement,
> and nor is it suckless - it is in [harmful] C++.
> 
> The bar patch is the simplest solution of all statusbars available, 
> unlike
> projects such as dwl-bar and somebar.

Your patch is pretty invasive. Applying other patches on top is just 
plain
pain. Can't follow on this purely ideological recommendations.

Freddy

p.s. Thanks to Raphael for creating somebar, which suck much less than
other bars :-D
Sorry for addressing this after months, but it feels kind of wrong,
leaving such e-mail without any response.