On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Erik Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I too would like to put in my vote for putting the buttons back on the > right side in the order most people are used to. > Thanks, > Erik B. Andersen
I have opinions on both sides of the fence here. I am very concerned about end users, though, so I think I'd agree with the "put buttons back how they were" crowd for the most part. That, or at least a hack to get the window button position controlled by the current Metacity theme. I'm leaning more towards just changing the order back, though. While there may be some geeky merit in the different order, it breaks a lot of themes and it reeks having with muscle memory moreso than the left / right thing does. (At least for me it does, and I am of course the centre of the universe). I observed something really neat with the way things are right now. Moving a window is more Fitt's-law-ish (if you'll forgive the number of times that law gets thrown about every day), since one can push the mouse pointer to the top right of a window and, without a second thought, start dragging it. This is helped by the enlarged target via the (although slightly hacky :b) draggable menu patch in downstream GTK. Having the window buttons on the left means the area to the top right of the window is clear of obstruction, so there isn't a risk of pressing something by accident. Food for thought, anyway... Dylan PS: Anyone know what happened to the context menu on right clicking the window title bar? -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
