Comment 246 for bug 532633

I am somewhat disappointed that none of the community contributors as so far is aware of the real intentions of this issue. Moving the buttons to the left is not a change for the sake of change as someone earlier supposed.

No, they are keen enough at Canonical's and have weighted this carefully. As is admitted in the mean time the movement has to do with freeing space on the right side of the desktop. But they cannot say why, for it is somewhat controversial. And neither Microsoft as Apple has done this so far.

It's all about introducing commercials to the desktop!

Yes people, as off Ubuntu 10.10 we can enjoy banners, pop-up windows and so on.

Such as: “You have been busy for an hour now, take a Coca Cola for new Energy”

or if you typed the word “boat”:
“Happy Hollydays offers you a 3-day mini-cruise to the Bahamas for the awsome price of $...”.

Oh, you don't like advertisements on your desktop? Well Cannonical can supply you with a commercial free version of Ubuntu at the reasonable price of $49.99.

Is this weird? Time will learn. It works this way on the internet. For this moment take a deep breath (or two).