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

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Mon Sep 23 14:07:11 EDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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
>
> http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=136162
>
> 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
>
> with this openbox theme:
>
> http://box-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=126725&file1=126725-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=Nodoka
>
> (I like the rounded scrollbar here, very unique!)
>
> Not wanting to start a war, but just wondering about the philosophy, and
> whether the reasoning is still relevant.....
>

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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