[ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed

[Saleel Velankar]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 08:36 +0000, Luke Benstead wrote:
>
> > The bug is the ordering of the minimize and maximize buttons which
> > have been swapped for no obvious reason, (...)
>
> It's rather that there is no obvious reason to have Minimize, Maximize,
> Close, as Minimize and Close have more in common.
>

Exactly why maximize has to be between min/close, if I had to guess, because
both those things make the window disappear from view, putting the max
button between them allows to the user to more easily distinguish between
two things that do very similar things visually.


> But I have to wonder if it shouldn't be Close, Minimize, Maximize, to
> have the critical command on the outside. You get out of something for
> good, so placement on the edge, a corner even, would make sense.
>
> I agree the close button should be on the extreme edge of either side, the
button being close to the title feels odd visually.
Interaction design is hard :/


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Saleel
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