Definitely agree. It took several days to figure out the exact environment variables needed to get basic applications working and scaling properly. For example, if you want “click link and open it in default browser” to work in, say, Slack, you need environment variables to get it working.

And since (like you say) basic profiles are not executed on startup, it’s very difficult to fix anything.

I completely disagree with the Sway author’s approach to go batteries excluded for the project. It means that next to nothing works out of the box, and that you either have to put in hours of work to fix undocumented things, or rely on a distro to package everything exactly right. And there really aren’t any distros packaging Sway right now.

Sway would benefit from integrating more of these things out of the box and it should rely much less on end-user configuration and other software to accomplish basic desktop behavior.

One excellent example is that you need a separate Lock Screen app like swaylock to lock your computer. And since you’re in charge of configuring all its settings, it’s difficult to know if you’ve done something insecure.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed using it.