Comment 225 for bug 532633

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

Adam Williamson wrote:
> You've said a couple of times that the idea is to free up the right hand corner
> for Other Stuff You Will Put There Later, which is a valid idea. What I don't get,
> though, is why you think it makes sense to do the freeing-up before you've got
> around to inventing the Other Stuff. It gives people all the drawbacks of the
> re-arranging with none of the benefits of the Cool New Stuff, so it's not that
> surprising that they wind up belly-aching.

That's a very good point.

If there are any reasons for the change, this should be tested separately -- like Gnome Shell, which I love.

The worst thing to do, in my opinion, is to do a disrupting change in a LTS.