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

[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

[Baguy]

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

[Ipkh]

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

[Brane215]

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

[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.

[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

[finalzone]

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

MacOS uses client side decoration too. X11 is considered as a relic unsuitable to modern system and currently under maintenance.

[archsway]

MacOS uses client side decoration too. X11 is considered as a relic unsuitable to modern system and currently under maintenance.

Windows waits until you're not looking then restarts and spends hours updating too. Package management systems are a relic unsuitable to modern system and currently under maintenance.

[Buntolo]

TL;DR: I think the best solution would be a flag like "disable CSD" in Xfce window manager settings.

I get that the oldies like legacy stuff, I also was one of the anti-CSD as I've always loved the "do one thing and do it well" unix philosophy. But it's like 10 years that screens are getting shorter and larger, so we need to waste as less vertical space as possibile, and we need CSD for that.

At workplace I've a 16:10 monitor and I've refused to get it replaces by a new larger Full HD monitor as the new one would have been 16:9, but for home-use I've lost any hope.

[Buntolo]

Michael I get why you have an approval queue for posts, but shouldn't we be able to edit them before approval? I've made grammar errors and I can't fix them, I get "Error

• You are not authorized to update this post."