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[Bug 1281368] Re: Decorations: windows should have 0px (bottom and side) borders

 

Anecdotally-- iirc, 6 out of 7 people on my team use white on black.
Personally, I find the aubergine attractive for a terminal or two, but
distracting when my while desktop is covered with them (I am *not*
suggesting we change the default color of the terminal). I know when I
walk around conferences, sprints, etc, I see more balanced mixture, but
white on black is used enough to where, IMHO, we don't want to ignore
it.

"And would not such dev's be in a better position in such cases to alter
unity.css to meet there personal needs vs. common users?" - I think so,
but my point is I don't think it should be too difficult for people to
adjust. I commented in this bug i part because I don't know about how to
do what you are suggesting. Is the documentation readily available for
this? Can this be done per application (ie, I can adjust for only gnome-
terminal)?

I guess I would ask what a common user is. In the past, I think it has
been defined in part as someone who doesn't use a terminal. Within the
last year, I've heard time and again from within Canonical that the
developer use case is vitally important and developers must be included
in our target users on the desktop for all kinds of reasons. The
developer is a common user of Ubuntu-- whether that is a cloud
developer, web developer, app developer, etc and while a developer may
be capable of searching through documentation and changing CSS
somewhere, I think we should make small but important tweaks like this
easy for them (ie, let's not take any of the delight of using Ubuntu
away if we can help it).

Others options I thought of when responding: have a 3rd theme based on
Ambiance that works better with dark windows. Another is it could also
be cool if when changing the color scheme in gnome-terminal, if it is
some sort of light on dark, that the css for gnome-terminal be adjusted
accordingly. That is of course gnome-terminal specific, but this would
likely satisfy the largest proportion of developers.

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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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