Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

2014-10-09 3:29 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com> wrote:
> > I found another nice feature that is missing from metacity, but
> > available in mutter. Mutter supports draggable invisible borders
> > around windows, which makes it easier to resize them. It's especially
> > useful for themes, which has 1px borders, e.g. Adwaita. You can see
> > the
> > relevant bugzilla task for mutter here:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644930
>
>
> It is not simple task...
>
> 1. Adding invisible borders will make non-composite mode look even worse.
> Turn off compositing and look how nautilus looks. With invisible borders all
> windows will have black ugly borders.

I see the ugly borders, but only if I start nautilus before I disable
compositing. If I set compositing off before nautilus started, I don't
see the ugly borders.

> Maybe we should drop option to turn off compositing-manager? With disabled
> composing manager there is no way to see background image with desktop-icons
> enabled, csd windows have black borders.

Isn't it possible to implement this as an optional feature? E.g. when
compositing disabled, disable compositing borders also.

> 2. libmetacity-private library will grove in its size, but this probably is
> not problem.

It's not a must have feature for 3.14, so I would say, please make a
release, and add this feature to the wishlist.

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György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User