Recently, Lubos Lunak wrote: > I yet to have actually see somebody saying a single reason > why this is really needed. Why should any app be able to forcibly > control whether it should or should not have decorations? > Even the xmms/gkrellm examples are rather non-convincing - > if I decide I don't want any decorations for gkrellm I can > simply turn them off in KWin, and the same for xmms.
I think there is an important class for windows that have been missing so far in this discussion and that may be a better example: foreign windows. By that I mean windows created by software from a foreign OS that are displayed using an emulator, remote non-X graphics client or virtual machine monitor. Such windows are likely to be drawn with their native decoration and do not look good when further decorated by the local WM. It may not be feasible to mask off the decoration; even if it is, to allow for such windows to overlap correctly the replacment decoration needs to be exactly the same thickness. Giles _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
