Re: [Ayatana] Criticism of Client Side Window Decorations

To: Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Criticism of Client Side Window Decorations

From: Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:19:28 +0200

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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:48, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Akshat Jain" <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Link Copy-Pasta
>http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/why-you-should-not-use-client-side-window-decorations/
>http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/follow-up-on-client-side-decorations/
>
>This guy named Martin Gräßlin is a hardcore KWin fan I think,looks like if
>he were a senior GNOME developer he would have replaced Metacity with
>KWin.Lol
>

>Design Team?

He's one of the leading kwin developers. It would be a bit surprising if he was not a fan.

Personally I find turning window decoration over to applications an odd way to go about increasing consistency on the desktop.

i see the point, though.

turning over the title bar design to the app will not increase consistency altogether..

two things happen, if we do this:

* app designers will consider DE-wide consistency more

* sooner introduction of gnome-globalmenu