Window buttons on the left in Lucid

[Tom H]

>>> So, that leaves the converts from MacOS X who I consider likely to
>>> welcome that change.
>>> But, how many people are there who bought Apple hardware and then
>>> abandon the most prominent reason for doing so - owning a platform on
>>> which they can legally run MacOS X - in favour of Ubuntu?
>>> Can someone please shed a light on this and explain what improvement
>>> this change is supposed to achieve? Or is this really so utterly
>>> brain-dead as it seems to me?

>> I am not sure why the change was made but have two comments:

>> 1. It is not even Mac-like because the "window-close" button is not
>> the left-most one.

>> 2. It is can be easily reverted to the usual/Karmic behavior.

> Yes, you know that, I know that. But the "average" user probably won't
> know that, since there's no GUI to configure that (gconf-editor doesn't
> count).

OK. I agree about gconf-editor. It is far too regedit-like.

Hopefully they will include an applet or or a tab in the appearance
applet to customize the placement.


> But, regardless whether or not this can be configured via a GUI, my main
> point is: if you change something which people are accustomed to, the
> new behaviour should be an improvement over the old.
> What *is* the improvement?

No idea what the improvement is. I closed a window when I intended to
maximize before changing the gconf-editor setting. Muscle memory...