No existing window manager manages them at all well. Configurability is crap. It takes up so much time and can never truly compensate for using the wrong design. Long lists of useful applications on the root menu are crap. Most people can get used to either.
Appearance is important.
Armed with these certainties, therefore, I embarked upon a spiritualist quest to write the perfect window manager. It looks like this , and you can get it here . The distribution is a gzipped tar file of sources only.