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> i disagree about that one.

Why ? I'm sick of square windows. I want disc windows. And instead of scrolling them, i want to rotate them. /s

Fixing bugs is hard. Better focus on the aesthetics.

I've got great news for you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_extension

Ooh - did this carry forward into Wayland?

Kinda-not-really? Wayland has wl_region objects and wl_surface_set_input_region but wl_region only has axis-aligned rectangles. you'd end up approximating the circle (or whatever shape) as a union of horizontal rect slices, rather than a pixmap. you can't just hand over a pixmap mask, you have to decompose the shape into rects yourself.

Recall back when Apple had the attention to detail required to implement a Blackberry style thumbwheel as the volume control in the Quicktime Player.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm

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