GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 345249
Window edges anti-aliasing request
Last modified: 2017-06-12 10:37:02 UTC
Gnome's Metacity is an awesome thing that's made it possible for designers to make great themes for a long time. There's one thing, however, that I feel is missing and should be provided at some point. I'm member of the Ubuntu art team and I feel that a big limitation of the Metacity is the fact that there are no anti-aliased rounded window edges. Ubuntu uses rounded windows by default now. It seems slightly old-fashioned by now that it's not possible to make the window corners anti-aliased. It doesn't exactly matter whether this is rendered by Gnome or provided by the artist with a 32-bit image, but it should become possible at some point to get this done somehow. We feel that it would be a great improvement to Gnome artwork if this were to be provided, since it immediately gives the entire theme (and thus, the system) a very polished and complete look. Thanks for reading this request, and I hope you will agree with me about the benefits of this proposition.
I agree, especially now that Metacity themes have become the standard for CompizFusion. Smoothly rounded corners are possible only using emerald or such, which doesn't work with the appearance applet and so creates a confusing configuration situation.
Sorry that this one seemed to drop off the radar. It's always good to hear from the people who actually make the themes-- I often wonder about what features people would actually like. Will this require a working compositor? (That's not necessarily a blocker.)
Perhaps this is being handled in some private metacity branch or in mutter now, but I was wondering if there was any recent work put into addressing this? If there wasn't, what would be necessary in order to make this work?
This bug was also reported by Yurel Watson on Launchpad in Ubuntu at <https://launchpad.net/bugs/606149>.
Yes, this requires a compositor. It should be trivial with any flavor of metacity that has a compositor, and impossible-ish with any flavor that does not.
@Havoc In your opinion what are the required steps to implement this in Metacity? Note: as far as I know Emerald or the cairo decoration (not the one that relies on metacity) in gtk-window-decorator achieve anti-aliasing by simply drawing the whole decoration (including borders) with cairo.
Hi all, just a comment hoping the someone take in charge this bug .. nowadays we have Gnome3 and Mutter so I think could be possible implement this feature... (I'm not a programmer, just play sometime with metacity themes and no anti-aliased rounded window edges is quite annoying) Thanks for the attention :) Andrea
I find is disappointing that this is still an issue with gnome shell, which not has compositing by default. Gnome-shell brings a lot of eye candy but ignores a very basic piece. Gnome-shell is beautiful, but the window borders ruin that flow. I would love to know if a fix for this is planned.
(In reply to comment #8) > I find is disappointing that this is still an issue with gnome shell, which not > has compositing by default. Gnome-shell brings a lot of eye candy but ignores a > very basic piece. Gnome-shell is beautiful, but the window borders ruin that > flow. I would love to know if a fix for this is planned. *which now has compositing by default.
I'm totally shocked that this bug is still 'UNCONFIRMED', although it may be useful to file a bug against Mutter or the newest version of Metacity (one and the same?) instead. So far as I know, Metacity's compositor had support for semi-transparent inactive windows for quite some time, as seen in openSUSE's Sonar theme, here. http://tuxrocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/3555405243_d41e7c3ea6_o.png If you can have semi-transparency in one part of the theme, why not simply the pixels on the corners? This seems like it really wouldn't be that difficult to implement, even on an optional basis for future themes. Of course, I'm no window-manager developer, but I'd like for someone who is to comment on just how difficult this would be to implement.
There is no active Metacity developer and unconfirmed vs new does not matter at all. Patch and/or developer welcome.
it seems that something will change :) with gnome 3.2 from http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/news-from-gnome-shell-land/ ( a list of improvements and new features for the next release reported by a team member of Gnome Design Team) ... Pretty rounded window corners Another item that has been on the wish list for some time are properly rendered rounded window corners. It sounds like a small thing, but getting this right will make the desktop look a whole lot nicer. And Jasper’s working on it. ...