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Bug 308180 - All themes fail to indicate mousedown on title bars and resizing handles
All themes fail to indicate mousedown on title bars and resizing handles
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 102547
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-18 13:31 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2016-08-18 13:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-06-18 13:31:20 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/10115

"Steps to reproduce:
1.  Choose any of the themes shipped with Ubuntu, including the default.
2.  Mouse down on a window's title bar or resizing handle.

What should happen:
*   The window frame is highlighted in some way to confirm that you're moving or
resizing it.

What actually happens:
*   Nothing."
Comment 1 Vorona, Dimitri 2006-07-19 10:46:52 UTC 
Comfirming this bug on GNOME 2.15.4 with ubuntu-egdy. There nothing to see in themes window and also in windows such Theme Details or Install Theme. Looks like a refresh bug...
Comment 2 Thomas Thurman 2006-12-06 01:49:32 UTC 
Is it a bug? Was it ever actually designed to change the border or titlebar on mouse down?
Comment 3 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-04-18 04:31:13 UTC 
Hi, I reported the original bug in Ubuntu. I don't know whether Metacity was designed to do this yet, but I think it should. When someone has moused down on a title bar or resizing handle, they are quite likely to be looking at their desired destination, not at where the cursor is now, so extra feedback on whether they've clicked in the right place would be helpful.

In a non-composited environment, inverting the outermost pixel of the window outline would be sufficient. In a composited environment, the shadow around the window could be reduced slightly to suggest that the window is being pressed down. Both these techniques would have the advantage of being theme-independent.