The Future of i3lockr

[owenthewizard]

I'd like to get some feedback on your usage of i3lockr. Recently, I've been working on another rewrite. This should fix multi-monitor setups and add support for wayland (wlr and xdg-portal(?)) as well.

The more I think about it, I think it would make sense of i3lockr (to be renamed warlock to become its own screen locker, rather than just an image processor. However, I think this would be a much larger undertaking. Which is fine...

Taking a brief look at some of the requirements, Rust support for PAM seems to be lacking, with a couple established crates that haven't been updated in years, and some forks that have been updated. I'm not sure of the longevity of these crates, and I don't want to resort to writing my own FFI wrappers.

So, where you you like to see i3lockr (warlock) go next?

[owenthewizard]

@bmhenry @dataCobra since you've interacted recently, I'm interested in your feedback :)

[bmhenry]

Having support across protocols sounds great, that's awesome! And I think the name warlock is cool

i3lockr/warlock today is small and pretty lightweight, and I'm guessing is generally not a ton of work for you to maintain. Turning it into its own locker is (as you said) a larger undertaking. If you're passionate about it, heck yeah! Go for it, it'll probably be fun! However if you find yourself trying to decide between a few different places that you might spend time, turning warlock into its own locker may take up a more significant amount of your time as you create new crates and work through bugs.

From a feature standpoint, warlock feels like it fits into the place that it needs to be quite well. I literally don't even think about it, even though I use it daily -- and that's a great thing. I mention this because from a "what value would fleshing out the bottom of warlock to be its own locker" standpoint, there would be no extra value to me that I'm currently aware of.

Maybe i3lock and swaylock have major flaws that warlock could fix, then I'll gladly stand completely corrected! Or maybe you're just looking for an interesting project and to create an alternative in the space, and IMO that's totally worthwhile too.