[ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:46:03PM -0400, Cory K. said:
> Sumit Agarwal wrote:
> > I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that 
> > necessitates a compositing engine + drop shadows.
> >
> > I think a very minimal window border would go a long way to 
> > professionalizing and de-cartooning the GNOME desktop. As I see it right 
> > now, the wide borders reflect the very annoying hard-outlined GNOME 
> > style icons. This is a trend that seems to be self-perpetuating for no 
> > good reason (look at the icon sheets for Firefox 3. See the Linux set? 
> > Why are we making new icons that look like they're stuck in 1998?).
> >
> > -Sumit
> 
> Issue with this is you lose the ability to resize the windows properly.
> A less than 3px border is very hard to grab and 0px means only being
> able to grab the corners.

personally, i prefer to use DWM as my primary work WM. in my setup i
have 1 pixel thin border for all windows. when near the corner of any
window i can simply hit ALT-LMB and the cursor changes to the resize
cursor. it's simple. i really like it.

cheers,

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julian oliver
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