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So, why should GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

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    • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

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

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

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

    https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1qiycif/so_why_should_gnome_support_server_side/

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you! I really wanted to have it posted somewhere where I've actually seen people who disagree with my thesis.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I was thinking about the problem. In GTK apps AFAIK you can hide all of the the window buttons. I know I can configure this in Gnome through apps like Refine and most apps follow the rule. What If you hid all of the window buttons and then force enabled SSDs? This could work well in DE's like KDE Plasma and it should look fine because you don't have window buttons duplicates anymore? The only thing that might remain inconsistent is the corner radius of the SSD with the corner radius of CSD at the bottom.

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