Comment 48 for bug 532224

As good as I though the idea was, I've realized one problem that cannot be fixed, try this: "minimize,maximize:close"

I think the only way out, and I don't know whether it is possible for us to patch for Ubuntu. The ideal situation would be to have four backgrounds instead of three: left (if n > 1), right (if n > 1) center (if n > 2) and single background (n=1). Here n is the number of buttons that are together.

I'm not really into all this, so I have no idea whether
 - it is possible to create such a patch only for Ubuntu, without breaking other themes
 - any Lucid freeze, that doesn't allow a patch for metacity, is in place (UI Freeze?)
 - it is at all possible to do something like this given how metacity works (I don't know how metacity works).