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Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
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Suggestion: Default values if config file not found #8

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Apologies for opening two tickets instead of one, but I thought that these two suggestions are different enought they merit their own "issue".

Would replicating the behaviour in ratpoison (if no config file is found, load predefined defaults) something you would be interested in? I personally found confusing when I first tried cagebreak that it wouldn't start without a config file, coming from ratpoison. Of course, other people's experience might be different.

project-repo commented 3 years ago

Hi nipsis, No problem we actually prefer having multiple issues to work with instead of one single issue with unrelated ideas!

I don't think that we will be hard-coding any configuration directly into cagebreak since it seems to me that this is something that would eventually start diverging from, for example, the example configuration in the repository and would probably sooner or later cause confusion. An alternative would be to add the installation of a default configuration to the install target so that when you install cagebreak a default configuration is written to some system configuration directory. That way cagebreak could check whether this file is available and use it as a fallback. What do you think? Cheers, project-repo

ghost commented 3 years ago

I think that's a great idea.

Having a default config file installed on /etc/cagebreak/config (like Sway for example) would ensure everybody has a working config file and can copy it to ~/.config/cagebreak if they want to tweak it.

project-repo commented 3 years ago

We have just released simple default config for meson install.

Cheers, project-repo