Ubuntu
light-themes package

  1. Bug #532633
  2. Comment #259

Comment 259 for bug 532633

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

My 2 cents worth:-

1. From a purely productive point of view, having the minimize, maximize and close buttons near the menus saves having to move the mouse pointer to the opposite side of the screen under certain circumstances. Personally I would rather waste untold seconds of my life enjoying a good book or a nice wine than moving my mouse pointer unnecessarily.

2. I totally agree with the view that this isn't and shouldn't be a democracy. Coming from a Gentoo background, when Daniel Robbins left (along with autocracy), and the "council" came into existence (the beginning of democracy/meritocracy), seemed to be the start of some problems with Gentoo.

Basically when everything has to be decided by committee/consensus view it a) slows the decision making process down a lot and b) some pretty silly decisions get made in the interests of trying to keep everyone happy.

Personally I would rather have things move forward and improve quickly at the expense of a minority of decisions I don't agree with. The crux may come when a lot of decisions aren't agreed with by a lot of people and then the distribution becomes crap. We aren't there yet and as long as Mark Shuttleworth and others in the upper echelons remain conscientious it probably won't happen.