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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 03 May 2010 00:27:36 +0100 > Simon Waters wrote: > >> Rob Beard wrote: >> > >> > I think I'll probably just learn to live with it, I gather that the >> > next release has got some other things on the right hand side. >> >> The Ubuntu decision process for this was interesting. >> >> As far as I can see the only public justification for this change is >> "we plan to do something with the space on the right in future". > > I'm still at a loss as to what they plan on doing with it. I've used > plenty of different desktop environments and even more window managers > (sans desktop environment)... I went on a rampage at one point trying > as many different setups as possible... and other than max, min and > close, the rest of the 'features' that were added seem to have been a > bit gimmicky and not really *that* useful. Even the 'flip it over and > write notes on it' aspect of the Java Desktop Environment turned out to > be a bit of a non-enitity. > > I really can't see why they alienated so many people (grantedly I also > find it a bit childish that people should feel alienated over such a > small thing) over this. > > "We want to do something else with the right-side of the window in some > future release": > 1) Why not wait until then to change the sidedness of the buttons? > 2) Why not put this 'extra' feature on the left of the window? > > Grant. Do you think they are copying the Mac desktop? I think I read somewhere that Mark Shuttleworth likes mac's??? Best wishes roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html