> If I understand this bug's description correctly, this problem exists in > Unity-2D on > Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin". This is an LTS release - according to > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases it will be supported on both the desktop and > the server until April 2017. This should mean fully and wholly supported, not > partly supported.
That's true, but 'supported' means "security and severe bug fixes only". See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#When for more information. > I also disagree with marking this bug's unity-2d task as Invalid while the > upstream GNOME > bug is still open Also, you should note that the situation in the GNOME bug is a bit different. Firstly, there is no consensus on whether Metacity or the theme(s) should be fixed. Secondly, whilist Metacity has not been deprecated (AFAIK), it is no longer the development focus of GNOME. In fact, the last comment made by a developer was made on 2011-01-10. > as this implies that even if GNOME were to develop and deploy a fix, > Ubuntu would not adopt the fix. I removed the metacity task just to make it clear that this bug is closed and to reduce the bug noise. This does not imply that if a fix is released by GNOME, then it won't be adopted by Ubuntu. We do not 'filter' upstream code. If Metacity makes a new release with the fix included, then it will just be packaged. > And of course the fact that GNOME are considering fixing > this issue should not in any way preclude Ubuntu from attempting to fix it. Again, you are free to open a bug about it, although I doubt it will be fixed as there are no developers working on Metacity on Ubuntu. Anyhow, the point is: this particular one is too old and too long to be useful. Your opinions are welcome, but if you continue posting here, they will just be ignored. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to light-themes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311 Title: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Released Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Fix Released Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in Unity 2D: Invalid Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This bug is fixed in unity-3d since ubuntu 11.04. It still exists in unity-2d and will never be fixed as unity-2d is no longer supported since ubuntu 12.10 (see comment #343). ************* This should mostly be fixed for Natty and might get backported to earlier releases as well. For Precise (12.04) this is again broken for unity-2d (as of 17.7.2012 unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1). Note that if the window has a scrollbar, you can grab that to resize the window. If not, you are stuck with the 1px border. Workaround: NONE KNOWN (see comment 320)? ************* *************Blueprint for Natty, Ubuntu 11.04: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection- dx-n-resizing-windows Work items1 * Make sure the new resize grip fits in current applications; doesn't interfere with anything. We should make some noise about this during the Natty cycle so people keep their eyes open and file bugs. 2 * Invisible window resize area - around 3px invisible area to allow resize on all sides. ************* Working grip backported to gtk2 already available in ppa : https://launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk ************* Workaround for Compiz/Unity: Alt+Middlemousebutton resizes a window most comfortably. Workaround: Edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity- theme-1.xml. Set the following values in frame_geometry_normal as desired: <distance name="left_width" value="3"/> <distance name="right_width" value="3"/> <distance name="bottom_height" value="3"/> ************ Binary package hint: metacity - The issue has been an issue for users (especially of large) screens for several releases- Trackpad users seem to be particularly impacted by this- The issue appears to have been significantly aggravated in Lucid by changing the border width from 3 pixels to 1 pixel The window borders in metacity are far too thin to be used for comfortable window resizing, and resize handles are not available in all applications (or even most). In fact, of all the windows I have open right now, not a single one of them has a resize handle. The result is that I get a lot of "misses" when I try to drag a window border, which usually results in my clicking on the wrong window altogether. The best fix for this usability bug is to create an "invisible" region around each non-maximized window about 4px thick that can be used for resizing (in addition to the visible border). Or perhaps there should be a border thickness option on the System > Preferences > Windows dialog (although the default thickness should still be increased considerably). Ideally all windows would also have a resize handle but I realize that these have to be application controlled (at least that seems to be the position of the metacity team). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/160311/+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
