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["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello list,

i filed this as a bug report on launchpad before, but i suppose not
much will happen without a proper discussion of the design:
"grid makes window corners round"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/694302

Unlike maximization of a window, grid-snapping does not always resize
to fill the whole workspace, yet it resizes to fill a rectangular
area.
So in a way, snapping a window to the Compiz grid is maximizing it to
a rectangular area. At the moment, window corners are rounded,
whenever a window is not maximized. We should consider the
possibility, that snapping to the grid aka tiling is in fact a form of
maximizing, which in turn would mean that the window corners should
not be rounded on tiled windows.

The whole point of tiling windows is broken visually, imo, if the
corners are rounded on tiled windows. This, among other problems with
Compiz Grid's visual implementation, make the feature not only less
attractive but also less understandable and thereby less discoverable
to the user.

thoughts?

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