This is not an invalid use-case. Not everybody wants to be 100% focused on productivity to the exclusion of absolutely everything else.
If you want to have something as simple as a background image, the only way you're going to be able to see it when using a tiling window manager is with gaps or transparency. Small gaps is arguably less intrusive than transparency.
People want the thing they’re staring at all day to look pleasing to the eye.
Oh the horror!
It’s kind of weird to me that folks think that aesthetics don’t matter for something that’s so central to one’s life.
The legitimate complaint about/problem with aesthetics is when it becomes the priority and/or hampers functionality. The macOS calendar when it took its extremely skeuomorphic turn was the prime example of this (it was such a poster boy for aesthetics over functionality that Apple responded by getting rid of skeuomorphism altogether).
But aesthetic improvements don’t need to be like that at sll.
The footnote is that I didn't author the idea of gaps in i3. There used to be a loose patch floating around that applied to an old version of i3.
When I came to Linux I quickly got into the unixporn community. After a bit of making Ubuntu look nice, I discovered i3. I then found the gaps patch and rebased it onto the latest version of i3 at the time. Lots of unixporn people liked that and asked me to create a repository for it, so I did -- and i3-gaps was born.
The reason I say it's true enough to say it was born on unixporn is that it's where "a gaps patch" turned into "i3-gaps", and also I reworked so much of that initial small patch that it became something new essentially.
You seem... Bitter.
I don't where is the issue with developers trying to make their product a bit prettier. If overall it draws more attention to it, be it through reddit or anything else, I see that as a win. But nobody forces you to use gaps, and nobody forces you to stop "selling shovels to developers", whatever that is for an occupation. Hope you keep winning big money, and hope i3[-gaps] developers keep doing what they love.
I wager to say that the vast majority of people using i3-gaps have never posted a screenshot of their desktop on reddit. The real use case is "some people like it". The reddit connection is merely evidence of people liking it.
> To each to their own then, whilst I continue to sell shovels to developers and turn over another ten to twenty thousand dollars a month for only that.
There is no need to be so angry over the truth. Assuming you read the comment chain, it's quite simple, the use-cases for this are almost invisible, adds no benefit other than complexity and henceforth, explains why Linux desktop support is ill defined.
So explaining the truth of not supporting complicated prehistoric contraptions is somehow upsetting to folks emotionally attached to their desktops?
EDIT:
Also with your own edits it really does show that the truth indeed hurts those that can't handle it when you are all over the place:
>> What the fuck are you talking about?
Getting very upset and angry. Causing one to sway into irrationality and reduced reading comprehension such as:
>> But saying there's no use-case is crazy .. can you not read?
There is 'little to no use-case' and it is almost invisible even if there is a use-case.
Surely you can read that and know that it isn't absolute. Yet, I'm the one that can't read? Your reading comprehension is quite low when you're angry over a windowing manager.
>> Look at your unhinged, boorish tone, uncouth bragging about how much money you make, your passionate and irrelevant denunciation of the Linux desktop, the deep personal offense you're taking to other people's UI preferences ... it's sheer projection.
I gave the reason why Linux Desktop support is ill defined. It is the truth and clearly it is upsetting you.
>> Do you have bipolar disorder or something? You really don't seem psychologically healthy.
Yet it is not me that is swearing, showing anger and giving short abrasive responses without explanation? Those who don't have a refutation often try to divert the subject to attacking the claimant and to make it all about them.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, which you've unfortunately been doing repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
e.g. see: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
This is not an invalid use-case. Not everybody wants to be 100% focused on productivity to the exclusion of absolutely everything else.
If you want to have something as simple as a background image, the only way you're going to be able to see it when using a tiling window manager is with gaps or transparency. Small gaps is arguably less intrusive than transparency.