CSS on window borders experimental layout language

[marnanel]

I'm happy to announce the first experimental version of Metacity with support for CSS window borders ("Cowbell"). This work was largely supported by Collabora Ltd.

You can:

• download the tarball;


• read the documentation (it's not as boring as you might imagine);


• review the source history.

This diagram should explain everything, perhaps.

I would especially like to hear from:

• theme artists, to let me know whether it's adequately powerful;


• anyone else interested in hacking on this with me;


• the GTK client-side decoration people, so that we can harmonise the way we represent things;


• people who know a lot about CSS and can offer insights into the suitability of the way we represent things;


• people who know a lot about the Dublin Core and can offer insights into whether our metadata system uses it appropriately;


• maintainers of other window managers (especially Mutter), so we can talk about including CSS support in other window managers;


• everyone else, to suggest which of the directions for future development are most interesting.

I think it may perhaps be helpful to set up a Cowbell mailing list, so that we can compare notes on implementations. For example, I haven't written down anywhere how to place an image to the right of the title, which is commonly needed (you use border-image).

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