Shuttleworth: Window indicators

Mark Shuttleworth takes a look at another use for the right side of the window title bar. "We've carefully placed all the panel indicators on the right, and we've carefully put the window controls and window title on the left. So now we have all this space on the right. As a pattern, it would fit to put the window indicators there. Cody Russell is leading some work in Canonical around the technology which actually draws the window title bar and borders. It's called "client side window decorations". We are moving the rendering of the window decorations into the app itself, so that you don't have the window manager and application drawing those pieces separately. That simplifies certain things (of course it also makes some things harder)."

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