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Bug 82542 - Metacity's maximized windows should not have borders.
Metacity's maximized windows should not have borders.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-05-21 22:55 UTC by msaavedra
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description msaavedra 2002-05-21 22:55:11 UTC 
When a window is maximized, metacity should hide the window borders, since
they are non-functional in this circumstance. The way they are now, the
borders on maximized windows fill the screen edges with dead pixels, even
though the screen edge is the most valuable real estate on the desktop.

As an example, consider apps such as galeon or mozilla, which are
frequently maximized. They both put the scrollbar all the way on the edge
of the window so that it is an easy target for the mouse. Metacity wastes
this effect.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-05-22 14:33:28 UTC 
This is a function of the theme; the theme determines what the frame
is like when maximized, including border size.
Comment 2 msaavedra 2002-05-23 00:43:21 UTC 
Thanks for the information, Havoc. I took a look at the default theme
and saw that maximized windows are using small borders, rather than
the normal borders. Is there any reason why the borders aren't removed
altogether? I made the trivial changes to get the behavior I wanted,
so I'm happy. I can send you the modified file if you like, otherwise
we can safely mark this as NOTABUG.
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-05-23 05:22:28 UTC 
Let's leave the bug open to consider changing the default theme. (You
don't really need to send the modified file, the patch is pretty
obvious right.)
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-05-29 03:57:18 UTC 
Changed for default theme.