Thoughts about decoration information in the xdg_shell

[Bill Spitzak]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 18 de novembro de 2013 10:28:12, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>> Can you explain why "consistency" is so important for the window frame, 
>> but is not a problem for the buttons and scrollbars and text fields and 
>> everything else inside the frame?
> 
> I personally think that it is a problem. IMO, toolkits should provide a way 
> for an application to deeply integrate with the environment that they're 
> running in and have as best as possible look and feel and behaviour.
> 
> Maybe that's a race we can't win. But I do think we should try.

I agree that it may be impossible, but it should be tried. And I think 
an important first step is to treat the window frames and the rest of 
the widgets the same, using the same library to draw them both.

I think the solution is to try to come up with a minimal library with no 
"objects" (except maybe a "context" that is reused for every call). It 
would be something like "draw the outline of a button here with the 
pressed-in state" and "tell me the box to draw the label in for a button 
drawn here". The existence of the button is not stored by the library, 
the bounding box is passed to the calls.

Qt's QStyle are a pretty good first approximation.