Currently specializations double the evaluation time from ~1 minute
to 2 minutes, and they're actually restrictive since it's possible to
run Hyprland and dwm on separate ttys at the same time.
- GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM shouldn't be needed anymore and was
likely a skill issue in the past.
- NODE_OPTIONS should be set per-project instead of globally.
- GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED should also be set per-project, although the
framework seems to be in standby mode currently.
Makes the desktop more useful. Note that nemo-desktop was chosen over
alternatives like pcmanfm due to its superior icon positioning and
support for feh, among other benefits.
I added specializations over a year ago when I was still new to NixOS
and trying out some of the many different features unique to it. These
days I don't need much more than a terminal and a web browser, and I
haven't used GNOME or Plasma in over a year at this point.
Nowadays everything I need from a computer I can accomplish with the
terminal. Nixpkgs trained me to dig deep into source code to figure out
how to do things, and using a PinePhone significantly improved my
awareness of how Linux interacts with hardware and how to configure it.
One of the biggest motivators for dropping these environments is that I
can't keep up with the changes that are made to GNOME and Plasma.
Hyprland has served my needs well and feels more stable since there
isn't a user interface that's constantly changing.
Now it's possible to float and unfloat windows and those windows will
preserve their floating window size.
Note that this patch was merged with the alwayscenter patch so the diff
applies cleanly.
After trying the new picom animations for a bit they're a bit too janky
compared to the animations in Hyprland. The "geometry" trigger
replicated the tiling animation when swapping windows, however this came
at the cost of transparency being broken during the animation and the
easing in general not being comparable to Hyprland.
Further issues include the usage of animations breaking fade in/out
support for windows, which I found less intrusive than the appear /
disappear presets with not-so-subtle easing. Using the geometry trigger
also meant that switching tags in dwm had a slide in effect, which felt
disruptive compared to the usual feeling of dwm.
Other issues included the increased probability of things not being
drawn correctly (for example, an animation that "hangs" while in the
middle of animating) and a slightly annoying fade effect every time
windows changed in size such as when toggling fullscreen.
The config used is below for reference, however after trying picom
animations dwm feels considerably better without them.
```
animations = (
{
triggers = ["open"];
preset = "appear";
scale = 0.5;
},
{
triggers = ["close"];
preset = "disappear";
scale = 0.5;
},
{
triggers = ["geometry"];
preset = "geometry-change";
duration = 0.5;
},
);
```
Trying this out with dwm and it seems to work. Note that we aren't using
the windowmap patch since it causes windows such as kitty to not focus
properly when switching between tags.
