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Why is wofi recommended so much? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've just been using fzf with a floating terminal window, and it's been great. I don't understand the need for rofi/wofi/dmenu.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a specific setup for this? I've not used fzf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an example: https://erfur.github.io/2021/11/20/fzf_as_dmenu.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't use wofi, but in general - what's there to maintain? It's a launcher. There are no new novel ways popping up constantly to launch applications.