Re: gedit ugly under xfce
On 16/07/2014, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:46:07PM +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
>> When I launch gedit, it just have ugly upper and lower
>> gray bars (with controls & information), but no XFCE
>> decoration, especially the close/minimize buttons (and
>> no upper bar from the theme).
>>
>> grdestop has XFCE decoration.
>>
>> Is it normal or do I miss some pkg(s)|setup?
>
> This is … an expected behaviour from any GTK+3 application launched
> outside of GNOME. Googling 'GTK3 client-side decorations' will provide
> you with all the gory details.
>
> Upstream sees this misfeature as a best thing since buttered bread was
> invented [1].
> Users thoughts on the matter, are … well, let's sum it up as 'needs some
> work' - [2].
>
> Reco
>
> [1]
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decorations-continued/
>
> [2] http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1135
>
It all sounds like even more encouragement to stick with Debian 6, and GNOME2.
Perhaps, that was the objective...
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