Cet article est aussi disponible en français. This article contains quite a few technical terms, which I will explain these in the following paragraphs, those that are already familiar with these terms may skip to the next section. A basic understanding of linux and it’s desktop environments is assumed. Server side decorations (SSD) is the term for when when the application’s titlebar is drawn by the system and client side decorations (CSD) is the term for when the applications draws it’s own titlebar. KDE prefers the former, while GNOME prefers the latter. KDE and most other desktop environments supports both, while GNOME only supports CSD.

an article explaining why GNOME should support SSD, but also arguing against the reasons often given for why they shouldn’t

If someone could repost this to r/GNOME I would appreciate it, since I don’t have a reddit account.

  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    I think client side decorations are the worst thing that happened to Linux after GNOME 3.

    It’s just a lame attempt at copying macOS, with the huge difference that macOS has a fixed, predictable menu bar at the top of the screen, while GNOME does not.

    I want a coherent system, where every window has the same title bar, which I can customise completely. Client side decorations are the opposite of that.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Funny enough, I think CSDs suck on MacOS too.
      Finder for example not only looked better when it had a separate titlebar on Catalina, it also worked better because it didn’t need to either hide buttons or the window title as the window shrunk.

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    XWayland windows under Gnome supports SSD. So I don’t understand the lazyness in puttin it for xdg-decoration