Ubuntu
light-themes package

  1. Bug #532633
  2. Comment #208

Comment 208 for bug 532633

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hills (hills) wrote : Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

Mark Shuttleworth :
> That doesn't mean we should be cavalier, but I'm not going to shy away from an opportunity to do something much better now just because Microsoft did something a particular way 20 years ago.

It is something more than Microsoft whim. In the West culture we are reading from left to right, from top to bottom. These are natural starting and ending points. So, the most convenient place for close button is a bottom right corner of window. That's why big buttons (Close, Apply, OK etc.) in bottom right corner of windows works so well.

Top right is the worst place for close button. Think of moving close button to the top right or even bottom right.