Re: GTK+, WM, desktops and CSD

[Olivier Fourdan <fourdan gmail com>]

Hi,

Besides, I don't think we should evaluate CSD in gtk+ based on
Chromium implementation.

IIRC Chromium moved away from gtk+ in favor of aura [1].

Cheers,
Olivier

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/Zpu9801pPRc


On 23 March 2015 at 22:50, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > I am not one of them, but there are a lot of people (including KDE
> > > devs apparently) concerned about CSD because it means different
> > > decorations depending on the apps/toolkit => Consistency might
> > > suffer.
> >
> > Consistency already suffers. Chromium pulls this trick, and it means
> > you can't move such web browser to other workspace, easily (as right
> > click produces useless Chromium's menu, while right click on normal
> > windows produces expected WM's menu, including "move to another
> > desktop").
> >
> > > I think it's very little change in GTK+ as it's already able to do
> > > both SSD and CSD (currently, decision to use CSD or SSD being made at
> > > run time based on the availability of a compositor).
> >
> > If you are modifying protocol between WM and application, would it be
> > possible to arrange "right click on title" event to windowmanager, so
> > that it can display its full menu?
>
>
> This request already exists.
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/tree/protocol/xdg-shell.xml#n187
>
> > Thanks,
> >                                                         Pavel
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