[arch-general] Gedit

Andres Fernandez andres at softwareperonista.com.ar
Tue Apr 15 16:56:03 EDT 2014


> Chromium defaults to drawing the title bar itself as part of the window,
> for the same space-saving reasons. GTK+ applications using the header
> bar still have window buttons too - by default a close button, but
> optionally minimize/maximize.
>
> Anyway, I'm pointing them out as the applications that popularized this
> feature, not as applications *only* providing this choice.

The main reason for HeaderBar widget on core apps of Gnome is Wayland. This
is a protocol to develop compositors in replacement of the old and beloved
Xorg. In Wayland world there is no Windows Manager, so windows decoration
are in apps. That's the main reason.


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