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On Mon, 3 May 2010 09:36:15 +0100 Roland Tarver wrote: > 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. ÂI'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. ÂEven 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??? I'm not sure it's a question of "copying" anything else - let's face it, there isn't really that much choice out there... left side or right side. I have heard that there is a determination to have more "out of the box" glitz that OSX. Grant. -- 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