Note that this will be a regression for folks doing LTS upgrades from
Lucid to Precise. In Lucid, the default theme at least has a larger
border on the bottom of the window.
I'd argue that --- for 2D desktops in Precise --- the default theme's
window borders should be fairly beefy for 2 reasons:
1. Differentiating windows: Without shadows to help define the edges of
windows, it is can be hard to tell at a glance where one window ends and
another begins when they are overlapping. Well-defined window borders
would help this.
2. Resizing windows: As noted, it is difficult to "grab" very thin
window borders. Larger window borders would help this.
This is a real usability and quality issue that will affect many users
when they upgrade from Lucid to Precise.
** Also affects: unity-2d
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: unity-2d
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198
Title:
Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “metacity” source package in Precise:
Triaged
Status in “unity-2d” source package in Precise:
Invalid
Bug description:
In unity-2d it seems that window borders are only 1 pixel wide and are
therefore very difficult to grab for window resize.
In 3D it seems that a shadow extends the width of the border so the problem
does not occur.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:33:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (4 days ago)
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