GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747246
Remove the rounded corners from the top bar
Last modified: 2017-07-19 20:05:24 UTC
I propose the removal of the rounded corners in the top bar of the default GNOME Shell theme. The argument being is that they are not aesthetically pleasing, as well as a rather weird and non-practical and non-functional design decision/element.
(In reply to Moo from comment #0) > The argument being is that they are not aesthetically pleasing, as well as a > rather weird That's obviously highly subjective and other people have disagreed in the past (otherwise we would not have rounded corners in the first place), but let's ask the design team ...
Until we drop rounded corners on the window decorations, I don't want to drop the negative space counterpart.
For reference, we don't actually put rounded window corners on maximized or tiled windows.
That's an implementation detail. The top bar rounded corners do that for us.
You can see it in the overview, and on the other corner of a tiled window.
(In reply to Jasper St. Pierre from comment #5) > You can see it in the overview, and on the other corner of a tiled window. Jakub's referring to the non-maximized state.
Can this be reconsidered? Here are some arguments I've noticed over the last years: * They are missing on additional monitors, resulting in an inconsistent look. * When tiling a window only one corner is rounded, also inconsistent. * Physical display corners are also squared and they are right above the rounded corner. * There's an extension to remove them, which is an indicator that most people don't them, because the opposite case - an extension which adds them for non-Adwaita themes or requests for KDE, Unity or other DEs to add them - is hard to find. * Popular themes like Arc don't have them. * They cause bugs, see http://pasteboard.co/9OWfjSh0w.png or https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747163#c31 for example * With the Pixel Saver or Maximus NG extension enabled, they overlap actual content. * They make it impossible to distinguish a maximized window and a window which has the maximum size. Also I think that now is a good time if https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747163 is about to get fixed and quarter tiling gets implemented (the visual change might indicate that there's an awesome new feature).
Some further data points: Comment on http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/gnome-3-26-translucent-topbar-video : "The finally got rid of those ugly round corners. Yas!" (Maybe he didn't notice them in the small YouTube video or something, because they are still there) Comment on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IUOF_bMROA : "Now if they could only get rid of those ugly corners on the top bar..."