Rounded corners for some apps on maximised windows mean you close the app behind by mistake!

[Gerv]

Binary package hint: metacity

Scenario:

- You are using the default Ubuntu theme, which has rounded corners for windows
- You have a maximised window for application A and, in front of it, a non-maximised window for application B which is positioned in the top right corner using the neat sticky/snap-to feature
- You smash your mouse into the top right, taking advantage of Fitts Law, and click to close application B

Expected: Application B closes
Actual: Application A closes, because the corners are rounded and so you actually hit the close button of the application behind!

This is really counter-intuitive. If you want to have rounded corners, fine, but you need to keep the target area for the close button the same, and square. It's caught me enough times now that I've switched to UbuntuClassic, which doesn't have rounded corners.

Gerv

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Gerv (gerv)]

This bug is still present in Intrepid, because non-maximised windows still have rounded corners in the default Human theme.

Gerv

[Daniel Pirch (dpirch)]

I can confirm this in Intrepid, I was about to report it myself.

This is especially annoying when you resize non-maximized windows to fill the whole screen (for example as a workaround for bug #344144). These windows appear similar to maximized windows except for the tiny rounded corners, but trying to close them the usual way will result in another window being closed.

[Daniel Pirch (dpirch)]

The bug is still present in Jaunty.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, the bug is one that needs to be send directly upstream to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org , forwarding instructions are available at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME , Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of Metacity is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Gerv (gerv)]

This bug is no longer relevant now the close box has moved, and is no longer in a sensible Fitt's Law position :-|

Gerv