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    3 months ago

    I’m a baby dev trying to collect some brain wrinkles. Can you expand that last point? What’s the downside of client side decorations? What’s a better alternative?

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      3 months ago

      I imagine it’s hard to debug and hard to ensure it’s consistent across machines due to different environments?

      • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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        3 months ago

        Maybe I’m misunderstanding but for clarification, the fact they’re drawn by the client actually means they can always be the same across different environments. This is in opposition to server-side decorations which are drawn by the desktop environment and should match the environment as a result. That said, server-side decorations are largely much less extensible than client side ones.