(27-04-2021, 03:23 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: I really hope it progresses to a point where end users can simply install arcan/xarcan and their wm(lua script) such as pipeworld or Prio or Durden from repositories, and have it work out of the box. That would be pretty sweet.

voidlinux comes with packages for arcan, there's also a docker image available.
One thing that could be great is to also have a nix package for it, this would also testing without interfering with the rest of the system.

(27-04-2021, 03:23 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: Damn. If you couldn't get it working then I've got no hope.

I think it might have been an issue with my local lua version.

On that note, the author of arcan has written an interesting post about divergent UIs: here. There's also a thesis by the htop/userland.org author here. Along with the classic Trends and evolution of window interfaces, that makes for some good reading material (pdf here).

On IRC we were also discussing ZUI. There's a good paper on that here and some people are working on actual implementations. There's eaglemode, pipeworld, mcol is working on wimp. I'm not sure of other implementations.

We should also probably mention the concept of skeuomorphism, which is kind of contested these days.