[PATCH wayland-protcols v3] unstable: add xdg-toplevel-decoration protocol
Simon McVittie
smcv at collabora.com
Thu Mar 22 13:39:19 UTC 2018
On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 08:22:23 -0400, Simon Ser wrote:
> I think we really do mean "decorations" and not "window management". Decorations
> are used for window management, but their scope is larger - they are also user
> interface components.
>
> For instance, I can think of GNOME [1] and elementary OS' [2] dialogs, which do
> have decorations (rounded corners, shadows) but for which decorations cannot be
> used for window management operations (they are purely aesthetic).
Those dialogs still have all the window-management operation widgets that
the application designer wants them to have - that just happens to mean
"none" in this case.
Contrast with the same dialogs in a SSD environment, where they get all
the window-management operation widgets that the *window manager*
designer wants them to have (which might be different).
smcv
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