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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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