Alex: Not everyone has a 1400-pixel or 1920-pixel widescreen display! It still needs to work with prettiness on a netbook, or portrait tablet. For example, the title of this bug report as viewed in Firefox ("Bug #694924 in Unity: "Window title could use a little fade" - Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 8") has a 60-pixel overlap with the default indicators on a 1024-pixel screen.
Alex: Not everyone has a 1400-pixel or 1920-pixel widescreen display! It still needs to work with prettiness on a netbook, or portrait tablet. For example, the title of this bug report as viewed in Firefox ("Bug #694924 in Unity: "Window title could use a little fade" - Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 8") has a 60-pixel overlap with the default indicators on a 1024-pixel screen.