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phillbush / shod

mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers
MIT License
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feature request : bitmap based window decoration themes #11

Closed aspizu closed 2 years ago

aspizu commented 2 years ago

where each part of the decoration has a bitmap image, also would allow for rounded corners

xfwm themes work in this way

phillbush commented 2 years ago

Hmm,

Shod had image-based themes in the past, in an early version.
This was its theme image (converted from .xpm to .png):

theme

When invoked, shod did first read the pixmap file and split it into several parts for each section of the decoration (edges, corners, buttons, titlebars, etc). But the code was so convoluted and hard to maintain that I later moved into a color-based motif-only theme.

Now, shod theming works just like mwm(1) (motif window manager): you cannot change the decoration style, you can only change its colors. I have never used anything other than the motif theme on shod, so this has never been a drawback for me.

I really do not want to get the old code for image-based theming back, sorry...

If you show me a better theme style/shape other than motif's, I may think of a way to support it without requiring moving back to a pixmap-based theming.

On round corners: that would need a compositor, and different compositors do round corners in different ways with differently looking results... And also, I do not want to force another application to the user; I prefer to let the user free to choose whether or not to do compositing.

aspizu commented 2 years ago

Thank you, Do you still have this old version ( with bitmap themes ) so I can play around with it?

aspizu commented 2 years ago

0d640b2f6dffb1ad22a766cca3127b84a51e8cb8 ?

phillbush commented 2 years ago

Yes, this was the commit that moved to color-based theming.
Much have changed since then however, so I do not recommend using it.