On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are we really going to move the window buttons (minimize, maximize and
>> close) to the left hand side of the window and then rearrange them?
>
> It appears those screenshots were outdated.  Quoting Ars Technica [1]:
>
> "When we posted screenshots from the design documents yesterday, the
> placement of the window titlebar buttons in the Metacity theme proved
> to be one of the most controversial issues. Many of our readers
> expressed that they disliked the button arrangement and positioning
> along the left-hand side of the titlebar. The critics will be pleased
> to learn that the titlebar buttons are located in their usual place on
> the right-hand side in the official theme packages."
>
> Gabriel
>
> [1] 
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/hands-on-a-close-look-at-ubuntus-new-non-brown-theme.ars

I guess I should have read the rest of the article:

"Although the designers decided to keep the buttons on the right, the
order was changed."

and

"Update: In a new package updated that was rolled out this morning,
the titlebar buttons were moved to the left-hand side of the window.
You can now resume complaining."

Gabriel

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