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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.
4 month ago is not that bad for such a small project. Eww looks more active, but I don't have the patience to learn how to create a menu. Its way too DIY for me.
Wofi ok. Rofi-Wayland great. Tofi awesome and enough for my use case.
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...
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.
Tofi is so ugly tho. Do you have any cool dotfiles to share? :D
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.
Is there a specific setup for this? I've not used fzf
Yeah, Rofi-wayland doesn't work as well as it should. Maybe it works if you are using the default config or something similar but for me it is supposed to show at the top of the screen, dmenu-style, but it instead shows under my bar rather than over it, as it should. Bemenu, with j4-dmenu-desktop work just as well for me on Wayland, as rofi did on Xorg.
probably bc wofi may be in more repos n package managers afaik, seems like a popularity issue for rofi-wayland more than a more conscious decision to not recommend it
There was a time when wofi was clearly the best choice, I think some of the recommendations you found date back to that period. Since then, there have been a lot of competing projects with activity.
The one I recommend is Fuzzel, which is being actively maintained*. I compared a few here, although the post is getting dated now:
https://mark.stosberg.com/fuzzel-a-great-dmenu-and-rofi-altenrative-for-wayland/
I recommend checking out the git version of Fuzzel, which has a number of updates since the last release.
To the person who asked "What's there to maintain? It's a launcher". I subscribe to the Fuzzel issue tracker, and there is a queue of 20 or 30 features that people would like implemented. The reality is that Rofi accumulated a number of features over the years and often people are asking for more fuzzel features to implemented.
For example, one that's being considered now is native window switching. This is already possible with Fuzzel when used in combination with swayr, but it would be more convenient to have in one tool.
*Fuzzel hasn't had a release recently, but there's a been a steady stream of features and fixes being added to it that I hope do get released soon!
Kidding? Can't tell if joke
Why would I be kidding? /genq