On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dylan McCall <[email protected]> wrote:

> There was one thing maybe a bit interesting that they changed. I'm not
> actually sure if it's upstream (sorry, no time to check!), but window
> button order is saved on a per-theme basis. So, their new Ambience
> theme gets buttons on the left, choosing another theme switches them
> to the right. It seems quite sensible.
>
Id say if it wasnt upstream it will be pushed there soon.

> If that _is_ upstream (or finding its way there), I recommend
> gnome-shell takes some initiative to accommodate different button
> orders. For example, if the close button is drawn on the left, the
> window close button in the overview mode should be on the left.
> As for the Activities button, though, I think moving it would be a bit
> drastic; having it on the right sounds pretty unnatural. If that
> happens, we may as well flip the entire interface. Learn a
> right-to-left language like Hebrew :b
>
I wouldnt think flipping the interface would be good but thats just my
opinion. I think we'll have to wait and see what the designers think of. I
think embedding the close button in the top panel when the window is
maximised would be a better idea that having everything jammed in the left
coner.

-fagan

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> Dylan
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> PS: The visual similarities are probably a common phenomenon: if you
> get enough Mac people doing your design, the result will inevitably
> borrow queues from MacOS X. Good? Bad? Not really sure. The button
> position has ended up making sense to me somehow…
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