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So, why should GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57302675

an article explaining why GNOME should support SSD, but also arguing against the reasons often given for why they shouldn't

If someone could repost this to r/GNOME I would appreciate it, since I don't have a reddit account.

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[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 point 9 months ago (15 children)

Yes. While CSD are obviously better - because they enable the titlebar to contain useful things instead of being a gigantic waste of pixels - SSD also obviously need to be supported.

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 35 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Since when did CSD become accepted, let alone encouraged? Titlebars should only ever be drawn by the system. This trend of individual applications drawing their own titlebars is a disaster that results in fragmentation and inconsistent behaviour. The absolute disaster that is the titlebars is one of the main reasons I cannot bring myself to use GNOME, recently.

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[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I don't want a giant bar that only contains 3 icons and the name of the app. Why would you want that ?

I have SSDs off on all my machines.

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Precisely. SSD puts the decorations in the hands of your window manager, which allows you to customise what information and controls are available in the title bar (or if you even want to display one at all), so you can use the space much more efficiently. With CSD, you're down to the whims and opinions of the application, and their space-wasting choices (and whether they even choose to respect your theming).