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Re: Only composites?
by Kami on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @09:46

BII has nothing to do, with tabbed windows. It's also really ugly, and seems a bit buggy. The advantage of tabs, is the possibility to group windows, but BII does'nt do this, it handle all windows the same, and waste space.

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Re: Only composites?
by Danny Allen on Wednesday 30/May/2007, @10:05

Well, that depends on how you define tabs. It has window titles that auto-arrange themselves like the tabs on top of folders, assuming they are lined up to be the same size. Tabs are still just a metaphor for the folder tabs you find in the common filing cabinet, and BII's titlebar arrangement fits this requirement. That said, BII is in a pretty bad state of affairs these days...

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Re: Only composites?
by Luciano on Thursday 31/May/2007, @01:07

I don't think it's really in bad shape. There are a few things that may be improved, but the only real problem I find in it is when the composite extension is enabled. I just noticed this when trying composite on my new laptop, since composite has never really worked on the desktop PC.

The problem is that BII is the only KWin decoration that can change window shape dynamically, and with composite enabled, the title bar is badly clipped when the window title changes, or it is moved around with shift-click.

Composite also prevents the titlebar unhide code to work.

I'll have to find a fix for those problems, but it's not been high priority for me, and I'd have to find out more about how composite works.

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