Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

“Hi Cody,

“as you wanted to have a mail with all my concerns about
client-side-window-decorations (CSD), here is a very long mail
presenting all my concerns what will not be possible any more with
CSD and why I think that these particular features will be
impossible. The list is based on KWin’s current feature set.

“Please see this mail as an offer to help. I could also just say
“what do I care? We won’t support it in KDE, so let them destroy
their desktop if they want.” But I do care. I do not want to blame
your work, but I fear that you just don’t see the disadvantages and
that CSD will be pushed onto the users without considering all pros
and cons. That’s why I decided to CC the Ayatana mailinglist and
publish this letter as an open letter on my blog. CSD is a topic
that is important for every user and nothing we should discuss in a
small group.

“As you probably have noticed I oppose the introduction of CSD.
I think they will have more disadvantages than benefits to the
user. In fact I do not see any pro argument for CSD. All the pros I
found during hours of research on some wiki pages, GNOME Shell
design documents, blog posts, etc. do not give one valid reason. In
fact most of the pro arguments are already present in KWin. I will
refer to the arguments for CSD again at the end of my mail. If
there are any other pro arguments not recorded on the Wiki page,
please publish them.”

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