On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
2) Not so much a technical reason, but more a philosophical one: One of i3’s
goals is to provide an efficient user interface for power users. While using
the mouse pointer is faster for user interfaces / programs with which you
are not familiar (I can lookup the study if you want to), it is certainly
not faster as soon as keyboard shortcuts end up in your muscle memory.
Therefore, the primary input device when using i3 should be the keyboard.