There's a solution to #1. For some reason, after hardy, the way opacity is handled in metacity was changed. This is easily fixed by enabling "metacity_theme_shade_opacity" in gconf's /apps/gwd. Setting opacity to 1 in inactive shades would work as well.
#2, as you said would require some work. Either a patching how window management works, or maybe using a stylish semi-separator (similar to the one in KDE4's Oxygen) in the metacity. If I remember correctly, OS X also uses unified menu/titlebar, how do they manage the movement of windows? -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
