[Mageia-artwork] Window decoration

Sun Jul 3 16:12:48 CEST 2011

Hey,
+
+the discussion also take place last week in the mailing list, but I'd like to 
+do that in an extra thread.
+
+To summarize the current situation:
+The current window decoration (Ia Ora), looks old fashioned and is hard to 
+maintain. It would also require a lot effort to port IaOra to gtk3 (needed for 
+Gnome3). Therefore we need a new window decorations and there are the 
+following solutions:
+1.) use the default decoration of each desktop environment:
+* Very easy, no extra work needed
+* all work is done upstream
+* no unique look for mageia
+* different look in kde and gnome
+
+2.) create a new decoration for mageia
+* Unique look for mageia
+* uniform look in all environments
+* heavy heavy load for the devs (kde, qt4, gtk2, gtk3)
+
+3.) Use other existing window decorations
+* easy, just a few work needed
+* the are decorations that exists for all common environments -> uniform look
+* relative unique look for mageia
+* hard to say, what happens if the upstream developer drop the decoration 
+
+From the dev-side of view, solution 1 is the best. But form the artwork-side, 
+I'm not very happy with it. Our KDE would look like Kubuntu, but with a 
+different startmenu button. Although a lot of people change the decoration 
+either, it's making a special first impression if it looks different (and good, 
+hopefully). Thus, I would like, if we can go with solution 3. But for that, we 
+need more information.
+
+I need one of you, who will search the web for decorations that exist in kde, 
+gnome (and qt). And list them somewhere in the wiki. After that, we can take a 
+closer look, if this a practicable way, or if we better go with an other 
+solution.
+
+One extra note: It already has been mentioned, that the oxygen window 
+decoration (which is the default for KDE) exist also for GNOME2/3 and Qt.
+
+Regards,
+Thorsten
+