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>GTK4 still doesn't support native rendering of window controls FYI this is not entirely correct. There is a flag for this in GDK4: https://developer.gnome.org

by zxzax 5y ago

>GTK4 still doesn't support native rendering of window controls FYI this is not entirely correct. There is a flag for this in GDK4: https://developer.gnome.org/gdk4/4.0/GdkToplevel.html#gdk-toplevel-set-decorated https://developer.gnome.org/gdk4/4.0/GdkToplevel.html#gdk-to... It may be that this is not implemented yet for some backends (I think it is not implemented in the Windows one) but they probably would accept a patch to implement it there if you know how to do it. Please avoid making these hostile assumptions about open source developers without having the full information. From what I have seen, there is a push recently to make GTK4 a better cross platform toolkit than GTK3 was.

jeroenhd 5y ago
Allowing for SSR is a good step, but does this also render the other controls in their native style? The window border is one important place for styling, and I'm glad GTK4 will improve the situation once it hits the mainstream distros, but as far as I can tell, the rest of the controls (buttons, textboxes, etc.) are still rendered by the application rather than by the system. I've given GTK4 a try on Windows, and all enabling the top level decorations seem to do is to disable the window border. All controls are still Adwaita, so you'd still need to fake a Windows UI style if you want to make the application feel any kind of native.
- zxzax 5y ago
  I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant the toplevel window controls like close, minimize, maximize. There is currently no way to make all the widgets render using the Win32 API to look like Windows widgets. You probably don't want to do that anyway, it will start to look and act really inconsistent when an application uses custom widgets. Somebody could definitely fake a theme that makes the widgets look like Windows, and ship that with their windows builds, if that was desired. That to me is a much more viable option. There are multiple themes like this for GTK3. [0] [1] I don't know if any have been ported to GTK4 yet, but they could. [0] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-10 https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-10 [1] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7 https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7

by zxzax 5y ago

jeroenhd 5y ago

Allowing for SSR is a good step, but does this also render the other controls in their native style? The window border is one important place for styling, and I'm glad GTK4 will improve the situation once it hits the mainstream distros, but as far as I can tell, the rest of the controls (buttons, textboxes, etc.) are still rendered by the application rather than by the system. I've given GTK4 a try on Windows, and all enabling the top level decorations seem to do is to disable the window border. All controls are still Adwaita, so you'd still need to fake a Windows UI style if you want to make the application feel any kind of native.

zxzax 5y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant the toplevel window controls like close, minimize, maximize. There is currently no way to make all the widgets render using the Win32 API to look like Windows widgets. You probably don't want to do that anyway, it will start to look and act really inconsistent when an application uses custom widgets. Somebody could definitely fake a theme that makes the widgets look like Windows, and ship that with their windows builds, if that was desired. That to me is a much more viable option. There are multiple themes like this for GTK3. [0] [1] I don't know if any have been ported to GTK4 yet, but they could. [0] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-10 https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-10 [1] https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7 https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7