Comment 9 for bug 733431

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Johan Kiviniemi
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> There probably should be a border for a non-composited environment and
> no border for composited one.

I agree, Especially because "invisible anything" in a non-composited
environment will be an absolute nightmare to implement.

It might be worth looking to *cough* patch metacity again *cough* to
support parts of themes with a "compositing" and "not compositing"
tag, though I'd like to discuss this upstream first, since our
patching is getting a bit out of control.

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> Title:
>  Windows lack borders: visually unpleasant and leaves only one option
>  to resize
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
>  Incomplete
> Status in Light Themes:
>  Fix Released
> Status in Unity:
>  Invalid
> Status in Unity 2D:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  The latest change in light-themes (bug #733233) to drop the window
>  borders lowers the visual quality and the usability of the desktop for
>  Metacity users. Unity 2D users are all affected as well as Classic
>  desktop users with 'No Effects'.
>
>  Visually there is no frontier any more between application which just
>  looks odd. I do not know of any other OS that does that. The main
>  difference with Compiz is that Metacity does not have shadows.
>
>  Usability wise, the border was also use has a handle (probably too
>  thin) to let the user resize the window. Without that border the user
>  can only resize the window using the bottom right handle.
>

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Sam Spilsbury