I agree that borderless looks better overall, since most windows are light and end up with a shadow that makes them easy to differentiate. However, since I've heard multiple times that we need to make the Unity desktop a delight for developers, the terminal use case is very important. I typically have many terminals (white text on black background-- a common terminal configuration) open at once and things start to look really weird when those terminals overlap since it is difficult to differentiate between them. Because of opacity, if the terminals are over another window or background that is light, then it is somewhat possible in a non-bright room to differentiate. When two terminals overlap over a dark background/dark window (eg, a third terminal) it becomes quite difficult to differentiate. Attached is a screenshot-- note, the brighter the room, the harder to differentiate (also, with the png I've attached it is actually slightly easier to differentiate than when looking at the actual windows on my monitor).
This has created a usability issue for me if I want to resize one of these overlapping terminals since I have to slowly drag the mouse to see the edge. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'm a developer (among other things) and I spend much of my time looking at terminals and this change made my desktop more difficult to use. I've also heard 2 other people independently, without prompting say the same thing. One idea would be to blacklist various terminals from being borderless but have everything else be borderless. Perhaps a better idea would be to allow people to opt out of borderless for certain windows, or expose opting out of borderless entirely in Appearance (personally, I don't like this last one-- I like borderless windows for the most part, just not with terminals). Maybe there is another more creative solution that works better for everyone. ** Attachment added: "lp1281368.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1281368/+attachment/4030415/+files/lp1281368.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281368 Title: Decorations: windows should have 0px (bottom and side) borders Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in Themes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Unity: Won't Fix Status in “ubuntu-themes” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Back in 11.04 it was decided to go borderless but was reverted mainly because of unity-2d. Since then users that wish this could easily adjust in metacity-1. Now that's gone with the unity-window decorator. Dark windows look bad with the light grey? 1 px. border, particuarly some video players, gnome-terminal ect. (I understand that without a border 2 overlaping terminals may be weird but overall borderless looks better in general use Or at the least somehow color it something less obvious & distracting. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140217-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Feb 17 20:37:35 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-17 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140217) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1281368/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
