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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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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:
  Invalid
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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.

  Proposal to re-apply zero-pixel borders:

    Bug #740579 ("Wishlist: move to 0px borders now that Unity and
  Unity-2D/Metacity can cope")

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