The bug is definitely in metacity, not in the theme. The grabbable border should be thick REGARDLESS of whether the visible border is thick or not. Visible border should be set according to aesthetic/design criteria, while width of grabbable border should be according to usability criteria and should not affect the appearence in any way.
Btw this WAS fixed some version ago (I can't remember if it was in Lucid or earlier): I used to have 1px visible border with a much thicker grabbable invisible border. At some point it got broken, This is a regression. I remember I read somewhere that the fix was disabled "temporarily" for some reason, like it interfered with some other bug or had some side effect. I can't find where I read this. I'm astonished to see it's not fixed in Precise. How long does it take? How can the imortance be still undecided? This is critical. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198 Title: Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “light-themes” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “metacity” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “unity-2d” source package in Precise: Invalid Bug description: In unity-2d it seems that window borders are only 1 pixel wide and are therefore very difficult to grab for window resize. In 3D it seems that a shadow extends the width of the border so the problem does not occur. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 19 14:33:44 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity-2d UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/878198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
