The original reason for the buttons being on the left is because the Ubuntu team (inspired by the Gnome team) wanted to make applications behave in the way they do on the MAC. This means that when you close an application's window, it doesn't actually close the application. You have to specifically quit an application to close it.
Of course, this is senseless. The only reason MAC behaves that way is because of an early implementation of multitasking and user interface which has now become so familiar with mac users its stuck. Why you'd want to re-implement that in a current operating system is beyond me! They probably realised that too, which is why they wanted to move it on the right - but now the left has stuck! Oh well, whatever your preference, it's only a theme away to change the placement. K On 02 Apr 2010, at 10:04, Jean Azzopardi wrote: > I'd like to see what ideas they possibly have for the right hand > side.. : "Our intent is to encourage innovation, discussion, and > design with the right of the window title bar." > > As it is, it appears to be change for change's sake, and it seems > pretty useless to me to keep the buttons on the left hand side now > when there's nothing on the RHS. > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM, paul morley <[email protected]> wrote: >> At least the order of the buttons has been changed back to where they >> were before! >> >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/564 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
