Cet article est aussi disponible en français. This article contains quite a few technical terms, which I will explain these in the following paragraphs, those that are already familiar with these terms may skip to the next section. A basic understanding of linux and it’s desktop environments is assumed. Server side decorations (SSD) is the term for when when the application’s titlebar is drawn by the system and client side decorations (CSD) is the term for when the applications draws it’s own titlebar. KDE prefers the former, while GNOME prefers the latter. KDE and most other desktop environments supports both, while GNOME only supports CSD.

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.

  • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 day 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.