[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 779416] New: Configurable title bar presence

[gtk+ (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779416

            Bug ID: 779416
           Summary: Configurable title bar presence
    Classification: Platform
           Product: gtk+
           Version: unspecified
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Backend: Wayland
          Assignee: gtk-bugs at gtk.org
          Reporter: hugo at barrera.io
        QA Contact: gtk-bugs at gtk.org
                CC: rob at robster.org.uk, wayland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

I'm moving from Xorg to Wayland, but came across the problema that apps always
draw a title bar, since the WM no longer controls this, but rather, individual
apps do.

When commenting the issue with the WM developers, they mentioned that the only
workaround is to use a patched GTK, since GTK does not allow users to configure
this. Of course, this isn't very nice for end-users (keeping updated a patched
GTK is a good way to break one's system).

It makes complete sense for GTK to have a configuration option to disable title
bars globally (eg: allow changing the default to "off").

Note that I'm not asking to disable them by default, just to make this
configurable.

I know applications CAN have a setting to disable them, but contacting every
single application developer out there, and convincing them of adding such a
setting (some apps don't even have a settings screen!) is no feasible (it also
means that users have to configure the same thing dozens of times).

TBH, currently, this is the only thing that's blocking Xorg->Wayland migration.

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