So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
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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.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I just tried that now (didn’t know it was a thing) and it’s not a very satisfactory solution if I’m moving monitors. When I get it to where I want, I can’t just double-click to max it again like I can dragging the title bar. Can’t say I’ll use that.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      🤷‍♂️ I used it all the time back around twenty years ago when I still was using a stacking window manager with floating windows. It’s all about practice I guess. For me it felt natural initially though.

      Also holding down Super and dragging with right mouse button to resize is great.

      The entire window is a much bigger click target than the title bar or the window borders (actually each quadrant would be the click target for resizing, but still a lot bigger). Fitts’s Law in action.

      I don’t use it much now that I moved to tiling window manager many years ago, and now a scrolling window manager, because those are mostly controlled with use of keyboard shortcuts. But sometimes I still use this even now. 👍

      I guess you could move it to another monitor then hit Super + Up to maximize, or a similar shortcut, if your window manager is a capable one. 😅

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Closest I’ve come to any of that black magic hotkey fuckery is I’ve learned to hold shift when I drag to get it to snap to my tiling setup in KDE. Oh and Alt-tab for window switching and Meta-Tab for Activities.

        I’m pretty much ready for Sway as you can tell.

        • Victor@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          that black magic hotkey fuckery

          😂 I take it you aren’t used to working with computers much except maybe for gaming? Or what kind of computer background do you have, if you’d like to share? 🙂