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Why is wofi recommended so much? (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 9 months ago by backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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TL;DR: Wofi is unmaintained

Wofi is a launcher/menu for wlroots based compositors.

The description on the sourcehut says that it's not actively maintained. Looking at the commits confirms this: The most recent commit was 4 months ago, and the 10th most recent 10 months ago. The creator also confirms this again in a reddit comment. (libreddit link)

Yet in most places I look (sway wiki 1, sway wiki 2*, hyprland wiki**, gentoo wiki, arch wiki sway, arch wiki hyprland, awesome hyprland**) it's at least listed somewhere, often near or at the top, with no mention of the maintenance status. I also searched for comments on lemmy containing wofi and only one of them mentioned that it's unmaintained, and that under a post that's seemingly deleted.

*edited by me just now

**filing an issue (or maybe pr) tomorrow when I'm less tired

I guess it still works perfectly fine, and I'm ok with using unmaintained software (Android 9), but I'm sure there are people who would like to know that.

While I'm here, I'd like to highlight that there is an active rofi fork that supports wayland with full functionality, which is a great alternative to wofi.

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[-] bceuhwps@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Wofi ok. Rofi-Wayland great. Tofi awesome and enough for my use case.

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Wofi is still working fine with wayfire. It's actually still offered on Arch as part of the "extra" repository:

% pacman -Ss wofi
extra/wofi 1.3-2 [installed]
    launcher for wlroots-based wayland compositors

To be honest, I found it more straight forward than rofi, but I could still use rofi if it worked well on wayland. I've never used tofi, and it doesn't seem like a drop-in replacement for wofi. But I guess it's worth trying. It's seems less graphical than wofi though...

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Tofi is so ugly tho. Do you have any cool dotfiles to share? :D

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Does Rofi-Wayland support custom css the same way wofi does? If so I'll gladly switch, I really appreciate the ease of customizing wofi.

[-] bceuhwps@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago
[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It seems like it doesn't, which is my favorite feature wofi has.

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