Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dmenu

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to dwm. If dwm goes away, consider merging to Tiling window manager instead. Or, renominate for AfD EdJohnston (talk) 23:15, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dmenu

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This is a component of dwm itself at AfD. Prod was removed as controversial. Pcap ping 19:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Pcap ping 19:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to dwm. --Gwern (contribs) 19:24 2 March 2010 (GMT)
- That article looks bound to be deleted as well. Pcap ping 19:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Non-notable component of non-notable software. Joe Chill (talk) 22:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; not independently notable, and no sources provided. —Psychonaut (talk) 00:28, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to dwm ; if "dwm" is deleted, then so will this be, if not, then it should be in that article anyways. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 04:50, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Merge~~ Keep as per the Arch Linux Magazine 2010-01 “dmenu is probably one of the most widely used minimalistic applications for Linux. Originally built for use with the dwm tiling window manager, dmenu has since found use in virtually ever other tiling window manager as well as several floating window managers, most notably Openbox”. Draketo (talk) 15:58, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Arch Linux Magazine looks like a self-published blog and not an actual magazine. Just take a look at its main page. — Rankiri (talk) 16:54, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Arch Linux Magazine is a newsletter put out by the Arch Linux distro and has a list of authors/editors. The official copy of that issue ArneBab mentions is at http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine/2010/ALM-2010-Jan.html According to the statement of responsibility, the Executive Editor's handle is Ghost1227, so I think finding a mirror at a personal site called ghost1227.com is not surprising. :) Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 00:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unless the article survives, mention in Tiling window manager, since it is used with some notable ones by default. --AVRS (talk) 08:42, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to dwm and, assuming said article survives, list it along with other common suckless X tools. Although the dwm-tools Debian package outranks dwm in both the Debian[1] and Ubuntu[2] statistics of recently used packages, dmenu is technically on par with whereis, another pointless stand-alone article. Regarding notability, dmenu is the officially recommended application launcher by unrelated projects like Xmonad[3]. —Ive-Ive (talk) 10:31, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.