Hello all! Back around the end of the Natty cycle, Ubuntu's light-themes went borderless [1,2]. Then, a few days later, the change was reverted due to issues in metacity and unity-2d [3] and a new bug was filed for tracking the bugs in metacity [4]. All of those bugs haven't had any activity for a year.
The reason why the borderless change was reverted in the Natty cycle was due to issues with how metacity handled themes with 0px borders, while Compiz' gtk-window-decorator handled it fine. Metacity continued to be used in Ubuntu till Precise as a dependency of Unity 2D. But now that Unity 2D is leaving for good and is being replaced by Unity 3D + llvmpipe, I think it would be a nice time to reconsider borderless light-themes. The last time he responded on the issue, Mark did say he would like the change to be made once metacity supports it [5,6,7]. Now that metacity is out of the picture, what do you all think about this? Do you think light-themes should go borderless? Implementation AFAIK shouldn't be an issue any more, it's all about design from now onwards. Thoughts? Bilal Akhtar. [1]: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/natty-light-themes-go-borderless/ [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233 [3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733431 [4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/740579 [5]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233/comments/17 [6]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233/comments/35 [7]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733431/comments/15 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
