[LAU] GxPlugins.lv2, Wayland and X (Was: Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9)

[Tim]

On 10/09/2018 11:42 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
> One of the "new" gnome-isms that I hate is thew take over of of the 
> window decorations. I tend to use many windows on any screen and I want 
> to know which window has focus. I look for a desktop theme where the 
> window with focus has a different colour than all others. Right now I am 
> using orange for focused and grey for unfocused. Any gnome app I use 
> insists on a grey title bar no matter what the theme is and merely makes 
> the text slightly greyer for unfocused. This forces one to use click to 
> focus instead of focus follows mouse (they still don't seem to have 
> focus follows mind for some reason) which makes things like copying from 
> one window in full view to a window partly covered hard to do.
> 
> Skinny window handles is another of complaint I have against many of the 
> newer desktop themes. The motif wm may be old and plain but it easy to 
> actually use.... though some of the old scroll bars took some getting 
> used to  :)   No I am not suggesting a return to motif or fvwm...


Just a side comment: It can be useful, especially during design
  and debuggging of an app, to know exactly which widget has the
  keyboard focus - no matter how small or insignificant the widget.

I had found that the only WM ever to do this thoroughly and completely
  was... the ancient TAB window manager.
TAB WM put a black rectangle around *any* widget that had the focus,
  no exceptions, no matter what the widget.

I found it annoying but understandable that later WMs (themes actually)
  didn't do that and typically only highlight widgets such as line
  editors and so on. Some themes did a terrible job of highlighting
  buttons and it was a real pain to ensure that all the various themed
  buttons worked the way we wanted in our app.