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Wishlist: move to 0px borders _when_ Unity and Unity-2D/Metacity can cope

Bug #740579 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
light-themes (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Paul Sladen
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.04

Bug Description

Note: Re-implementation of zero-pixel borders is blocked on needing changes to Metacity; see:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733431/comments/14
  https://code.launchpad.net/~dashua/light-themes/border-less.metacity.and.fixes/+merge/54439

For clarity the required changes were not made.

Further to:

  Bug #733431 ("Windows lack borders: visually unpleasant and leaves only one option to resize") and originally:
  Bug #733233 ("Increase shadow area to 45 pixels (but not grip area)")

it would (apparently) be excellent to deploy zero-pixel borders again. The people at OMG Ubuntu managed to sway Mark's mind over this:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233/comments/17
  "Oh alright, let's fix the issues for Unity-2D and get the 0px theme
looking stunning for release ;-)"

which appears to now have been done!

See original description

Related branches

lp:~dashua/light-themes/fix.lp.740579
Andrea Cimitan: Pending requested
Diff: 33 lines (+6/-6)
2 files modified
Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml (+3/-3)
Radiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml (+3/-3)
Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Paul Sladen (sladen)
Paul Sladen (sladen)
tags: added: sladen-natty-ui-freeze
Paul Sladen (sladen)
description: updated
Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - Wishlist: move to 0px borders now that Unity and Unity-2D/Metacity can
+ Wishlist: move to 0px borders _when_ Unity and Unity-2D/Metacity can
cope
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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :

@Paul, if we can't get border-less metacity themes working for Natty, I propose at least darkening the frame and bottom and edge. See attached screenshot. I'll push a branch on this if this could work. We have to elimate the frame and bottom edge using shades of gtk:bg[NORMAL]. Ubiquity, Ubuntuone-Control-Panel, Eye of Gnome, Terminal, all look quite unappealing with the whitish frame along the black toolbars and edges. This seems a sensible aesthetic compromise absent the 2D fixes for 0 pixel borders.

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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :

Ugly white border / frames in Ubiquity, a first impression / look for some installing Ubuntu for the first time.

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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :
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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :

Another distinct example of the frame.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

James: that's the proposed solution for Radiance at the same time?

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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :

Radiance doesn't exhibit such a distinct behavior because it is already light. The only noticeable frame should be the terminal which is already themed dark in /apps/terminal.rc. This is prevalent on Ambiance (default) because if the dark appearance.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Closing manually due to a typo in the changelog:

 light-themes (0.1.8.12) natty; urgency=low
 .
   [James Schriver]
   * Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml
     - Darken frame and bottom edge fix for (LP:740579)
   * Radiance/apps/chromium.rc
     - Fix incognito theming in Radiance (LP: #697854)
   * Radiance/metacity/metacity-theme-1.xml
     - Revert fix borderless overlap (LP: #733504) as this is a fix
       for "0" pixel borders"

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Lucazade (lucazade) wrote :

There is too much contrast with this new fix, before the border was not so visible.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Lucazade: groovy,ta. Cimi has now filed that as bug #769487 ("[Regression] Ambiance Dark borders around window decorations are too dark"), would you be able to suggest a solution.

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Owais Lone (loneowais) wrote :

Can we land this before freeze for Quantall now that Unity2d has been dropped?

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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

Good point - wodnering about the installer though

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James Schriver (dashua) wrote :

@cimi Too late?

James Schriver (dashua)
tags: added: sladen-quantal-ui-freeze
removed: sladen-natty-ui-freeze
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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

Ciao James, unfortunately that will break GNOME Classic session (fallback without compiz).

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James Schriver (dashua) wrote : Re: [Bug 740579] Re: Wishlist: move to 0px borders _when_ Unity and Unity-2D/Metacity can cope

@cimi Ok no problem. Maybe we'll fix this someday.
On Sep 3, 2012 10:21 AM, "Andrea Cimitan" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Ciao James, unfortunately that will break GNOME Classic session
> (fallback without compiz).
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