I agree that various IM and password managers should be Whonix default but again, future topic since it's a huge topic.Sure. We nailed it anyways already (yesterday on IRC). Both pidgin (with evil protocols disabled, see Tails) and KeePassX will be shipped by dist-upgrade to Whonix 8 soon. That is, if I understood Patrick correctly.
You misunderstood my point about #!. I don't know what in Crunchbang is actually Crunchbang's work and not just Openbox default, so I started by installing only Openbox. Regarding Crunchbang, my first thought is that it's nice but nothing that would really impress me.I'm sorry. Just yesterday, I outed myself as another German :P So, I most likely was lost in translation here. Thanks for your estimation on #! - as I see, opinions can differ significantly.
Alt+F3 disables the right click menu and adds a console at the bottom?As long as "dmenu" is activated by Alt+F3 it has the focus, so yes. You terminate it by pressing Esc. Basically, it is a launcher for everything in $PATH - very convenient imho. Just (for example) type "torb", press enter and Torbrowser is there, type "VB", press enter and VBox is there. Reminds me of Gnome Do, tab completion on steroids.
We shouldn't disregard all visual improvements since 1995 as bloat. We don't need flashy eyecandy OK but rounded edges would be great. Default JWM looks horrible. Puppy implementation on the other hand looks really good.
Using 3MB vs. 13MB is not really a problem. After all we will be operating with at least 512MB. If you think that JWM is better then X, great, let’s use it but if it’s better only because it uses 3MB and Openbox uses 13MB then I don’t see the point.
I’m with you here. I’d just like to use JWM for the featherweight (my personal pet project) - I see this as another topic as the lightweight Whonix. For the lightweight setup, I also would do more compromises. That said, I’m actually sorry for hijacking your lightweight thread with my featherweight setup. I guess the latter one will be a one-man show anyways. Maybe I should start a new thread?
As of Slacko 5.6: I have it running here and, as you said, Puppy developers did a pretty good job in customizing/prettifying JWM, companion software, etc. So, as you see (for featherweight) we actually can care about 3 VS 13 MB Ram and still ship something nice.
Making a lean, mean Whonix machine is pointless if no one will use it. Mixing Win95 with other modern programs that will be part of the edition will create an even bigger display of the conflicting looks.If ok for you, let's discuss mainly lightweight here and let me tinker with featherweight (your input is certianly more than welcome). Again, I'm sorry for mixing things up. To me, currently, featherweight is most important, i.e. I'll do it anyways (for me) and if it turns out to be great, I'm going to redistribute it - contributing to people's options/convenience. For lightweight, such compromises (fastest, lightest, real minimal footprint, squeeze out the last MB of Ram) isn't needed - I'm perfectly on the same page here.