Comment 227 for bug 532633

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

> gnome-shell, Compiz, Firefox,, gnome-appearance, etc that will need to be remodelled?

To add to the list , "webpages" .[chat tabs, mail tabs , info bars , in-page popups, modal popups ] All the major sites have close buttons for these on the top right. [I'm not even sure if there is a site which places the "close" in a different location ]

When we are trying to blur the the distinction between desktop and the web, moving the close button to the left further widens the gap. User will now have to get used to two different positions for the same action.
Even if we fix all the apps within Ubuntu , not sure if we can convince the rest of the world to switch too. ;-)

IMO , if the "new exciting" stuff needs the space in the right, Ivanka's suggestion of "max and min on the left and close on the right." seems more reasonable.