Window Maker has a reputation for being fast, efficient and highly stable.
Window Maker has been characterized as reproducing "the elegant look and feel
of the NeXTstep GUI" and is noted as "easy to configure and easy to use." A
graphical tool called Wprefs is included and can be used to configure most
aspects of the UI. The interface tends towards a minimalist, high performance
environment directly supporting XPM, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PPM icons with
an alpha-channel and a right-click, sliding-scrolling application menu system
which can throw off pinnable menus, along with window-icon miniaturization and
other animations on multiple desktops. Menus and preferences can be changed
without restarting. As with most window managers it supports themes and many
are available. Owing to its NeXT inspiration, Window Maker has a dock like
MacOS, but Window Maker's look and feel hews mostly to that of its NeXT
forebear.