[jeromenerf]

Maybe 15 years ago or so, I wrote the original “useless gaps” patch for dwm, because it felt packed, especially between different window styles (terminal, web browser, file manager for instance). The concept was new to tiling managers but quite common anywhere in photography, typography or web design.

At the time, I spent a minute or two on the patch (the code is simple, and the patch is a hack), ten minutes on documentation Ascii art and zero minute on choosing a name for it. “Useless” made it sound like a casus forki, and “gap” could probably been just “margin” as in css.

“Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter aux malheurs du monde” — Albert Camus ~”misnaming an object is adding to the world misery”

Happy merging anyway!

[Airblader]

Just now saw this comment. That's really neat, pleasure to "meet" you. :-) That naming certainly gave me some headache over the years because it always stuck, and seems to be the cause of all the heated discussions. Anyway, I also wouldn't have it any other way now!