Continuing to proxy for Martin .... On Monday, June 07, 2010 03:07:32 pm Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Am Montag 07 Juni 2010, 20:54:02 schrieb Ted Gould: > > Ah, the ones on the previous link didn't have any. How does the > > application tell the window manager how to draw it's title bar with > > generated circles? Do you have to make some sort of XBitmap to pass the > > title bar or is it process embedded with XEmbed? Can the app make the > > title bar any color it wants and/or the same color as the buttons? > > Sorry, but this is completely controlled by the decoration. Widget style > and window title belong to the workspace, not to the app. This is not of > interest for the application, if it were of interst we end up in a visual > inconsistent state. And in fact it doesn't matter. You want to achieve > something (e.g. good looking RGBA windows). How it is done technically > doesn't matter. If the decoration provides the RGBA or the widget style is > just a technical matter. We should just ensure that we don't get > regressions by using the one or the other. > > The decoration tells with a NETWM hint that it can be extended behind the > window content and the application can use a fully translucent background > and set a hint which regions should be painted by the decoration. This has > been standardized via the NETWM mailing list before the release of KDE SC > 4.4. > > Currently only KWin supports this feature. When the port of Aurorae to > Compiz will be finished Compiz will support this, too. I hope to finish > the port, so that it could be used in 10.10. An experimental port is > finished: help is welcomed.
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