[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 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [openbox] openbox philosophy on rounded corners (of windows)
 


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:49 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> 
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>Subject: Re: [openbox] openbox philosophy on rounded corners (of windows)
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>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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>>>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:
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>https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2261
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>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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> I didn't get too far, and I don't think I saved it anywhere, sorry.
Bummer! Is it possible for you to to recall what part of the code we should look at? Is there developer documentation for the actual code somewhere?

Many thanks!
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