Hi! On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:15:55PM +0200, Olivier Schwander wrote:
Hi,
Le 03 Sep 2009 20:02, Jan Vornberger a écrit:
* Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts
It may be a dumb question, but is there a way to use the GNOME window decorator to draw windows border and titlebar ? I just had a look at the screenshot and I feel it may have a better look with such a decoration ?
I agree, it would be really nice to be able to use the GNOME/Metacity window decorator. I don't know if there is an easy way to do this. I did look into using the window decorator of Compiz. They seperated the decoration part into an extra manager, that talks with the core application. That way it's easy to write different decoration manager and they can use stuff like the GTK toolkit, without having that dependency in Compiz itself. So I figured, it might be possible to reuse those decoration managers with Bluetile. There isn't too much documentation, how exactly it works, but this is what I gathered (mostly from these two posts: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2006-April/000009.html and http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-April/001935.html): Compiz creates input-only frame windows around all real windows and sets a property on them. The decoration manager finds those frame windows by the property and creates pixmaps that contain the decoration. Those are then somehow communicated back to the window manager and can be drawn. There are some libraries (libdecoration, libwnck) to help with some off this stuff. Unfortunately it was beyond my skills with X11 programming and interfacing with C applications from Haskell to do this in the time I had. There might be other problems as well, I'm not sure. It would be a nice feature though, I agree.
* Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment
By saying that, you are okay to depend on GNOME features, aren't you ?
I guess so - do you have anything particular in mind? I guess 'integrated' is a little too much to say here. I think it's still fairly desktop environment agnostic, but I only tested it with GNOME, so that's why I mention it. The only 'integration' is, that some Metacity keyboard shortcuts are available and gnome-terminal is the default terminal (but if that is not available, it falls back to xterm). Regards! Jan