[openbox] openbox philosophy on rounded corners (of windows)

[Globe Trotter]

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 From: Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net>
To: Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>; openbox mailing list <openbox at icculus.org> 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [openbox] openbox philosophy on rounded corners (of windows)
 


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:


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> From: Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net>
>To: Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>; openbox mailing list <openbox at icculus.org> 
>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [openbox] openbox philosophy on rounded corners (of windows)
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>On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>I have been looking around at different themes and one thing I have been missing in openbox is the inability to have rounded window corners. (Otherwise, this has been great, by and large!) I understand that this is a philosophical decision made by the developers? I wonder why? Is it because it can not be done in an easy way that also keeps resource usage low? I am looking at the following theme on box-look
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>>http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=136162
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>>which, turns out, though listed under openbox, is not necessarily an openbox theme. I guess, I am wondering what icewm and fluxbox give up, with their ability to have clean rounded corners on their windows. Ideally, I would have liked to combine this icewm theme:
>>http://box-look.org/content/show.php/IceBuntu?content=62935
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>>with this openbox theme:
>>http://box-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=126725&file1=126725-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=Nodoka
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>>(I like the rounded scrollbar here, very unique!)
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>>Not wanting to start a war, but just wondering about the philosophy, and whether the reasoning is still relevant.....
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>> I'd be okay with a radius option for corners. The theme code would need to support it though, meaning borders would need to follow the curve. I started this code once but don't really care about it, so went nowhere.
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>That would be great (assuming it does not add on to the complexity of the code, and of resources). Should I put this in as a feature request on the bug-reporting machine?
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> I'd be surprised if it's not there already. But if you can't find an existing bug feel free. Maybe someone will pick itup (probably not me).
Thanks, Dana! You are right: there is such a feature request from 2008, and you did respond to it then, expressing interest, but then I guess you did not have time for this. Here it is, expressing similar ideas, as mentioned above:

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2261

Is it possible for you to make the experimental code that you tried available -- someone may pick it up then? Or did you not get to that stage?
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