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[Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all!

Back around the end of the Natty cycle, Ubuntu's light-themes went
borderless [1,2]. Then, a few days later, the change was reverted due
to issues in metacity and unity-2d [3] and a new bug was filed for
tracking the bugs in metacity [4]. All of those bugs haven't had any
activity for a year.

The reason why the borderless change was reverted in the Natty cycle
was due to issues with how metacity handled themes with 0px borders,
while Compiz' gtk-window-decorator handled it fine. Metacity continued
to be used in Ubuntu till Precise as a dependency of Unity 2D. But now
that Unity 2D is leaving for good and is being replaced by Unity 3D +
llvmpipe, I think it would be a nice time to reconsider borderless
light-themes.

The last time he responded on the issue, Mark did say he would like
the change to be made once metacity supports it [5,6,7]. Now that
metacity is out of the picture, what do you all think about this? Do
you think light-themes should go borderless?

Implementation AFAIK shouldn't be an issue any more, it's all about
design from now onwards.

Thoughts?

Bilal Akhtar.

[1]: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/natty-light-themes-go-borderless/
[2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233
[3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733431
[4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/740579
[5]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233/comments/17
[6]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/733233/comments/35
[7]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733431/comments/15