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Mutter-Rounded – A window manager for Gnome, with rounded corners patch

by maydemir on 6/25/22, 9:00 PM with 11 comments

• by smoldesu on 6/25/22, 11:58 PM

  This is neat, but it's a massive shame the GNOME developers abandoned the idea of a proper extension API. Something this trivial should not be a Mutter patch. This should be something you can apply as a user and have working immediately, ideally without a compositor restart even.

  It felt like death by a thousand papercuts staying on GNOME during the v40 transition/update/overhaul. Seeing stuff like this ultimately just bums me out, it ultimately amounts to the user fighting the developers which should not be a problem with an open source project!

• by hactually on 6/25/22, 11:58 PM

  I really like this, lots of work.

  The standardization on libadawaita feels like it'll help reduce the weird edge cases -- good looking future for Gnome

• by encryptluks2 on 6/26/22, 4:08 AM

  Is the point of rounded corners just cause? I don't see any benefit to them.