On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:03 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > On 7 March 2010 22:56, Alex Launi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't think that new users will crap their pants over the window > > > controls > > > being on the left, I think we've all seen OSX before. > I'm pretty sure this whole issue is going to become a flamewar until > Lucid is released, if not beyond - sorry for that. But I find it really > bad that in an open project like Ubuntu such visible changes are not > discussed and elaborated publicly, instead of being released late in the > cycle with any explanation. > > Last cycle Canonical pushed the "Ubuntu Software Store", whose name > prompted heated debates, before changing its name to something less > commercial. Now it seems we're going to suffer from those internal > fights again, and I'm sure in the end Lucid will ship with something > more sensible. Couldn't this have been discussed calmly in the desktop > list before any choices are made? Couldn't the ubuntu-art list have been > made part of the process, instead of letting them know when everything > is over [1]? These times, I too often feel like volunteers are > second-class citizens in Ubuntu. > > I won't comment on the design choices themselves, because what I don't > like in them is merely IMO a consequence of the lack of prior > concertation. Just a sarcastic comment about the fact that with the > upcoming switch to GNOME Shell, the left corner of windows will be just > next to the Activities hot corner - better be aware of it, reverting the > window buttons order for 10.10 would be quite ridiculous...
WOW! Interesting point! I was just expecting flamewar/backlash about this change to fizzle out like the update-notifier and anyone who is irritated would change it back . But keeping gnome-shell in mind, this change truly becomes difficult to understand. Anyways , there is a bug[1] regarding this change, i dont think anyone has mentioned this before. I guess no one thought it through ;) [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633 -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
