Refactoring x11

[bebehei]

For scheduled refactoring of the X11 code, what should we pay attention to?

• add ability to center the notifications
• transparent colors (rather than a general transparency)
• transparent separator colors
  • (or maybe use a single window per notification!?)
• Application name based geometry

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@tsipinakis please add your thoughts here, too!

[bondzula]

Single windows per notifications would be amazing, I would love to have different notifications size's based on the width needed for that notification, and not get resized when the bigger one comes along.

[tsipinakis]

add ability to center the notifications

I wouldn't put that in the X11 refactor that falls more into the settings redesign (#336 ), the implementation part of it is pretty straight-forward.

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We should also look for:

• Separate X11 with the rest of the codebase as much as possible (eyeing those xctx accesses in notification.c).

• Decoupling X11 API calls from the pango/cairo drawing functions

[bebehei]

I wouldn't put that in the X11 refactor that falls more into the settings redesign (#336 ), the implementation part of it is pretty straight-forward.

Well, however we should look forward to refactor it in a way, that we can adapt such changes later very easy.

IMHO we should actually now decide, where we want to head for with the graphics stack. This avoids double work.

[samirettali]

Implementing the transparency for the separators would be great!

[bynect]

tracking this in #1018