So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
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Cet article est aussi disponible en français. This article contains quite a few technical terms, which I will explain these in the following paragraphs, those that are already familiar with these terms may skip to the next section. A basic understanding of linux and it’s desktop environments is assumed. Server side decorations (SSD) is the term for when when the application’s titlebar is drawn by the system and client side decorations (CSD) is the term for when the applications draws it’s own titlebar. KDE prefers the former, while GNOME prefers the latter. KDE and most other desktop environments supports both, while GNOME only supports CSD.

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.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    What now? GNOME doesn’t support server-side decorations? It’s been years since I last used GNOME, so I may be out of touch; but if this is true, what happens if you do run something on GNOME that simply doesn’t have any code that draws its own titlebars? Or am I misunderstanding how any of this works?

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Why would they not supply some default decorations when none are available?

        Jesus, Gnome is such a shitshow.

        • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Their go-to solution is libdecor, which is just a library that implements a titlebar, still putting the burden on apps (Or rather, whatever windowing library they use) to be responsible for it.

          Worst thing is, I kinda get their argument against supporting it, they’re just really inflexible about it which just makes the whole issue too heated.