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Window manager ideasWindow manager ideasPosted Sep 2, 2008 20:30 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467)In reply to: Window manager ideas by dmarti Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book
Yes, and it decorates its own window border, which means it will never fit in with the look and feel of, say, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu all at once. This is a bad idea and it would be nice if software vendors would stop doing it. Private window decorations are one of the most glaring problems with Java GUI applications.
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Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 4:48 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]
What do you mean? I haven't seen the Linux version, but the screenshots on the website for the windows version clearly show the standard Windows decorations. The only difference is that the tabs go above the address bar instead of below. Or are you saying that it's doing some games under the hood for some reason?
Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 13:44 UTC (Wed) by djthomp (guest, #14080) [Link]
I would guess that jwb is talking about how the tabs are up in the title bar.
Also, it has what I assume is the Vista look (Aero, I think?), but it has it even on XP. So it doesn't appear to be using the platform window decorations at all, it must be drawing everything all on its own.
Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 13:50 UTC (Wed) by dw (subscriber, #12017) [Link]
I believe jwb is referring at least to Chrome on Windows XP, where it looks like this:
http://dmw.me.uk/this-is-not-windows.png
Vista + "glass" looks like this:
http://dmw.me.uk/this-is-windows-vista.jpg
This is the only annoying thing I've found about Chrome thus far. Applications that customize the Windows UI, especially when it only yields something like an extra 6 vertical pixels, annoy the hell out of me.
Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 15:09 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] As far as I know, Windows users are used to such things.
Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 15:58 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]
No, it is not the standard windows decorations. The window borders are different colors and different sizes, and the title bar is kinda like the Vista title bar, but not really. It only looks approximately correct on Vista with Aero enabled. On XP it looks totally wrong, and on Windows 2000 it looks absurd.
Window manager ideas Posted Sep 3, 2008 23:06 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]
Ah. Shows what I know about Windows :-)
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