LFCS 2012: X and Wayland [LWN.net]

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 13, 2012 5:21 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by robert_s
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

> But is there no way of _forcing_ an application to use a users preferred decoration/manager?

Look, most applications will use a toolkit, the toolkit will use a common way to draw the decorations (otherwise there will be a coherency issue), ideally a shared library.
This library will draw the decoration according to users preference and it must be very flexible, it's even planned for KDE to use *server side decoration* if I understand their plan well.

But no, there is no way to force an application (short of modifying it) to use all this, and *this is not an issue* because there are *now* lots of way for an application to misbehave but in practice this doesn't happen.

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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 13, 2012 11:24 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

>Look, most applications will use a toolkit

It's not about those that do, but about those which don't. Even if Qt and GTK start drawing the deco, there is still SDL and glut, for example.

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 13, 2012 11:39 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

So? As I said above I don't expect that this will be a big issue because the 'social forces' which makes current applications look&behave 'identically' will still be here with Wayland.