> It would have been really appreciated if someone had thought of this in the > case of package upgrade. Better still, this change shouldn't require one to > have to open gconf-editor and find the place to set it -- most people that I > know who use Ubuntu don't even know what a window manager is -- let alone > that their window manager is called metacity. This should have been a > toggle-switch on the "windows" preferences dialog, something along the lines > of "look like a mac/look like windows"
That is the case, actually, but it's done with no extra widgetry. Window button layout is now tied to your selected theme in 10.04. Technically, the default value for the /apps/metacity/general/button_layout key is still menu:minimize,maximize,close, so mose themes (that don't set button_layout) are still shown that way. It's just the Ambiance, Radiance and Dust themes that explicitly set button_layout to something else ;) If you want the old button layout, simply change to a different theme, for example Human, or the awesome Homosapien in apt:community-themes. Indeed, it would have been nice if the theme thumbnails reflected this, but they don't. (Come to think of it, I wish those thumbnails didn't need to be auto generated. It gets very drab having the same visual repeated again and again and again, even if it is technically informative…) If someone wants the awesome new themes but wants buttons on the right, I made an installable theme for that case: http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/downloads/themes/Ambience_Radiance-Right.tar.gz Download it, then drag the file to the Appearance Preferences dialog to install it. Unfortunately, all sorts of people are convincing less technically focused users to go about the overcomplicated (and neither fun nor obvious) route to customizing button layout by directly altering the gconf key. I think part of this problem is a lack of nice upgrade notes (there's just the tour, which focuses on newcomers), and certain web sites which posted how-tos on this topic yet neglected to research the particulars or to update their how-tos as the landscape changed. (Okay, kudos to TechPad for having an update at the bottom of their article, but it's still small print at the bottom; people tend to read that last). Speaking of release notes, I was looking for the 10.04 release notes to see what we had going on there for the button layout change, but I actually _couldn't find them_ from ubuntu.com. Am I just going crazy? Thanks, Dylan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
