Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
by reddalo on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:24AM
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And the biggest problem is that most GTK3+ applications have that kind of messy client side decoration. It's completely unusable.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
by makapuf on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:39AM
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I currently have ~12 windows open (Win11 explorer, office, dev / terminal apps, sublime, Firefox, signal) : almost every one of them has a different top bar.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
by zahlman on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:46AM
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Also, something about "Podcasts" in what is presenting as a Rust IDE. Looking more closely at the rest, I assume this is because it's the name of the project being edited, but it's still confusing. Fundamentally the title bar is being split in two, with a separate part for each main column of the window, as if it were really two windows docked together.
- a "+"
- a down-arrow which presumably opens some sort of menu
- a hamburger menu (why is this different to the down arrow?)
- a "..." menu (err, isn't this the same as the hamburger menu and/or the down arrow?)
- A "hammer" icon next to the word "fetching". Because... yeah we use a hammer to fetch things. I think that's something we can all get behind.
- another two down-arrows. One probably opens out options for the "hammer" bar. The other...?
- an up and down arrow. Maybe this actually changes the options for the "hammer/fetching" bar.
- A search magnifying glass (no search field curiously).
- A cross.