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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1281368/+attachment/4030415/+files/lp1281368.png

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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)

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