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Author: sewn <sewn@disroot.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:18:12 +0300
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# mew
-mew is a simple menu for Wayland.
+mew is a efficient dynamic menu for Wayland, an effective port of dmenu to Wayland.
## Building
In order to build mew, ensure that you have the following dependencies:
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make install
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-# Usage
-See the man page for details.
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+## Usage
+See the man page for details.
+
+## Comparison
+
+There are other menu programs or dmenu clones for Wayland, but there
+are a few differenes when it comes to accuracy, as mew is a full accurate
+clone, while differing in the output select option due to the differences
+between X and Wayland output/monitor design.
+
+* [wmenu](https://codeberg.org/adnano/wmenu): A more modern dmenu clone,
+ making it's own design choices (such as padding and keybindings), not
+ supporting bitmap fonts (Pango), and being fully rewritten from scratch.
+* [bemenu](https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu): Being a dynamic menu library
+ and client program, it is very flexible, but comes at a cost of being
+ unnecessarily complicated and large in codebase.
+* [emenu](https://codeberg.org/fbushstone/emenu): Personally maintained fork
+ of dmenu which adds wayland support, lacking git history. It is what
+ mew hard forked from due to maintainership, consistency, and tidiness.
