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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/878198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp