Re: client side decorations

Mon May 9 19:52:01 PDT 2011

Actually, I think Iskren made a very important point. To take this one step further: with CSD, we can't force the client to stop drawing the decoration, we can only tell the client that it should. So we can assume Chrome having a decoration for example, what shouldn't be possible in a tiling WM.
Together with the other things he said, it would be almost impossible to get a useable/useful tiling WM with CSD.
To the shortcuts discussion: do you really want every user to remember shortcuts to use his desktop? This would be a huge step backwards for the process of getting Linux on the desktop. Everything the average user wants to do must be doable within the UI, and closing/moving dead windows out of the way belongs to this.

André 

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Von: "Daniel" <danlist at terra.es>
Datum: Mo., Mai. 9, 2011 23:29
Betreff: client side decorations
An: "Bill Spitzak" <spitzak at gmail.com>
Cc: "Høgsberg" <krh at bitplanet.net>, "Peng Huang" <shawn.p.huang at gmail.com>, "Sam Spilsbury" <smspillaz at gmail.com>, "Mike Paquette" <paquette.mj at gmail.com>, "wayland" <wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>, <maltee at lavabit.com>, <Kristian at freedesktop.org>, "microcai" <microcai at fedoraproject.org>

El dg 08 de 05 de 2011 a les 09:47 -0700, en/na Bill Spitzak va
escriure:
> 
> Though it is possible, I don't like the idea of clients sending hints
> about what areas are the close box or window border, since it implies
> there are such concepts as "title bar" and "close box". The compositor
> can just have clicks anywhere raise and move the non-responsive
> window, and lots of clicks (indicating user frustration) pop up a box
> offering to kill the program. On Linux, since it is standard,
> compositors can also have Alt+click always raise/move windows, and alt
> +right click pop up a menu of compositor-side window actions.
> 

This would be actually a good way to handle it. Use an special mode or
tool, a la xkill, to deal with stuck applications. It can take the form
of an special key/mouse combination, gestures, or as I said before, an
external tool like xkill. Note that it needs not be limited to killing,
but could do any other thing, like minimizing, sending to another
virtual desktop, etc.

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