We've not much information on what's happening with tiling wms. One source of info is the debian package system's popularity contest: if a package is in debian, we get to see a snapshot of trends. Here's a little analysis of what's been happening with the tiling wms in 2007: http://galois.com/~dons/images/tiling-window-managers.png Summary: * ion continues long term decline * ratpoison was in a place to take advantage of ion controversy * wmii and dwm continue long term growth * in late 07, the two new tiling window managers, xmonad and awesome, begin eating away at ion, ratpoison and dwm users * larswm and stumpwm are static For xmonad my hope is that improved packaging, and the ease of adding extensions, to appear in this weekend's release of xmonad 0.5 will lead to further growth. Along with xmonad's technical features over the competition, I hope to see continued growth in the coming year. We're working hard at ensuring this is the best tiling wm! Our challenge is to make the cost of installing a Haskell toolchain easier, though, so its cheaper to experiment with xmonad. This comes down to improved ghc packaging on each distro. -- Don