Client-side decorations and button layout

[Tim]

On 08/10/14 22:35, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On 08/10/14 22:13, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Currently on Unity the apps using client-side decorations (aka
>>> headerbars) have Close button on the right side, which is inconsistent
>>> with all other apps. A good example of such app is gnome-weather.
>> Aren't there bigger issues right now like compiz not rendering the window
>> decorations correctly or so?
> I don't see any other problems. Perhaps they have been already fixed.
There was something broken, I don't know specifically, seb or desrt would probably know
>
>>> 2) Read from GSettings but filter out maximize and minimize — only
>>> close will be seen by default. It will be possible to move/show/hide
>>> close and appmenu buttons in the decorations using the usual GSettings
>>> way, and it will be possible to use an override
>>> (org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides) to show the
>>> rest of buttons.
>> No don't do that, just ship a default config that only has a close button, there is
>> no reason to have to filter buttons out and its just going to complicate things
> The problem is that the config is the same for server-side and
> client-side decorations. We can't change one and keep the other one
> unchanged.
I don't know why you want separate settings for both, that just becomes inconsistent! Although our use case in gnome-shell is likely different
to yours, minimise is somewhat redundant there, and well it easy enough to maximise a window without the button ;)

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> Dmitry Shachnev
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