Xfce 4.16 Is Making Good Progress On Utilizing GTK3 Client-Side Decorations

[willbprog177]

I'm an old dude, who likes 'legacy', stuff I guess. I don't see the point of CSD. To me it seems like a waste of system resources. Instead of having a window manager that manages the decorations on each window, we now will have each client draw its own? So does this mean it's going to be like Windows, where some apps have the native decorations while every third-party app has some dorky-looking non-native totally different decorations? I'll crawl back under my X11 rock now

[Baguy]

I doubt there will be many fleeing Xfce. Gnomes problems stem from a different source than the Gtk3 libraries.

I'm referring to the CSD. Quite a few people don't like that.

[Brane215]

GTK3 support means Wayland support, which could attract additional audience.
OTOH Enlightenment has gotten pretty good these days...

[Ipkh]

I doubt there will be many fleeing Xfce. Gnomes problems stem from a different source than the Gtk3 libraries.

[Baguy]

Bet alot of people will be flocking away from XFCE with these changes.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Xfce 4.16 Is Making Good Progress On Utilizing GTK3 Client-Side Decorations

Several months ago we learned of the Xfce 4.16 plans to drop GTK2 support and explore client-side decoration goals among other changes for this lightweight desktop environment release expected in late 2020...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Xfce-4.16-CSD-Progress