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<div dir="ltr">This has also been discussed in the forum: <a href="https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=203">https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=203</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Thorsten van Lil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tvl83@gmx.de">tvl83@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey,<br>
<br>
the discussion also take place last week in the mailing list, but I'd like to<br>
do that in an extra thread.<br>
<br>
To summarize the current situation:<br>
The current window decoration (Ia Ora), looks old fashioned and is hard to<br>
maintain. It would also require a lot effort to port IaOra to gtk3 (needed for<br>
Gnome3). Therefore we need a new window decorations and there are the<br>
following solutions:<br>
1.) use the default decoration of each desktop environment:<br>
* Very easy, no extra work needed<br>
* all work is done upstream<br>
* no unique look for mageia<br>
* different look in kde and gnome<br>
<br>
2.) create a new decoration for mageia<br>
* Unique look for mageia<br>
* uniform look in all environments<br>
* heavy heavy load for the devs (kde, qt4, gtk2, gtk3)<br>
<br>
3.) Use other existing window decorations<br>
* easy, just a few work needed<br>
* the are decorations that exists for all common environments -> uniform look<br>
* relative unique look for mageia<br>
* hard to say, what happens if the upstream developer drop the decoration<br>
<br>
>From the dev-side of view, solution 1 is the best. But form the artwork-side,<br>
I'm not very happy with it. Our KDE would look like Kubuntu, but with a<br>
different startmenu button. Although a lot of people change the decoration<br>
either, it's making a special first impression if it looks different (and good,<br>
hopefully). Thus, I would like, if we can go with solution 3. But for that, we<br>
need more information.<br>
<br>
I need one of you, who will search the web for decorations that exist in kde,<br>
gnome (and qt). And list them somewhere in the wiki. After that, we can take a<br>
closer look, if this a practicable way, or if we better go with an other<br>
solution.<br>
<br>
One extra note: It already has been mentioned, that the oxygen window<br>
decoration (which is the default for KDE) exist also for GNOME2/3 and Qt.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Thorsten<br>
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