Windows lack borders: visually unpleasant and leaves only one option to resize
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
light-themes |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Paul Sladen | ||
unity-2d |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned | ||
metacity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The latest change in light-themes (bug #733233) to drop the window borders lowers the visual quality and the usability of the desktop for Metacity users. Unity 2D users are all affected as well as Classic desktop users with 'No Effects'.
Visually there is no frontier any more between application which just looks odd. I do not know of any other OS that does that. The main difference with Compiz is that Metacity does not have shadows.
Usability wise, the border was also use has a handle (probably too thin) to let the user resize the window. Without that border the user can only resize the window using the bottom right handle.
Proposal to re-apply zero-pixel borders:
Bug #740579 ("Wishlist: move to 0px borders now that Unity and Unity-2D/Metacity can cope")
Related branches
- Paul Sladen (community): Needs Fixing
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Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml (+8/-32)
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Radiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml (+4/-3)
debian/changelog (+7/-4)
Changed in unity-2d: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
milestone: | none → 3.8 |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity-2d: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in light-themes: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity-2d: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
Changed in unity-2d: | |
status: | Fix Released → Invalid |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | High → Undecided |
status: | Incomplete → New |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in metacity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Florian: thank you for bringing this up so quickly. I believe both njpatel and choatic raised 0px borders as potential issue for the 2D desktop during the early discussion from February so it's good to have that confirmed.
Out of interest, does it have any impact on any specific stalkholders (eg. OEM customers) have might mean that we'd have to solve it at a higher priority?