Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

[Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarding another that didn't seem to make it.

On Monday, June 07, 2010 11:44:59 am Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Am Sonntag 06 Juni 2010, 21:39:40 schrieb Ted Gould:
> > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 23:31 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > So I think it's worth continuing the conversation.  I'm personally
> > > quite concerned that we are about to have a permanent split between
> > > GTK/Gnome and Qt/KDE on this topic that will make future work on
> > > desktop consistency much more difficult.
> > 
> > Why couldn't Qt support themes that specify the window title as well?
> > There's already work on keeping the theming across toolkits, it seems
> > like this just extends it.  I don't see this as creating a larger gap as
> > before to get consistency you need to make a GTK, Qt, KWin, Compiz and
> > Metacity theme (they pull from each other, but you need to check them
> > all) and now you just have to make a larger GTK and Qt theme.
> 
> Do you really think that is a valid use case or argument for CSD? How many
> projects do you know of which need both a GTK and QStyle? I know of
> Mandriva and that's it. And Mandriva is kind of invalid for Ubuntu ;-)
> (Also as they do use a distinct window decoration) Sorry but this sounds
> to me like another argument how CSD will fix problems which do not even
> exist. In fact I do not know of any other Open Source project except KDE
> which actually implements a QStyle.