Comment 300 for bug 532633
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| Michael Noyce (miken) wrote Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" | #300 |
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Personally, at the time of writing this, I do not like this change as it seems to be more a change for changes sake in an effort to simply be different. There seems to have been an element of groupthink in the design and decision process. This is a pity because for the most part, despite a few edge cases here and there, I actually quite like the look of the new Lucid themes.
The top-left of the window is now overloaded and looks cluttered with the window buttons, window title, application menus, and icon bars. Even more so when the window is maximised and you have the Gnome Panel and Gnome Menu Bar in the top-left as well. The old Window layout was more balanced with the actual application icon, window title, and window buttons spaced across the top of the window. (I have not tried this with Gnome Shell yet, but I can foresee problems unintentionally entering the Activities Overview. And just to add to the confusion when using the Activities Overview a close button appears on the top-right of the window under the mouse.)
Even after several days usage I am struggling to over come my muscle memory. I still instinctively move the mouse to the upper-right to maximise, minimise, and close my windows. When I then look at the top-right of the window to actually select the window button I want I have found myself momentarily confused ("Hey, where are the window buttons?") before correcting myself ("Hey, they are on the left now, remember."). I still get caught out using the maximise and minimise buttons.
Perhaps this is being made more difficult because I am also using other computers running Windows and Karmic so the existing muscle memory is being re-enforced using these. Whatever the reason, I am finding it frustrating and it makes the time to perform the intended action longer.
I am sure there are usability and GUI experts out there that would have a field day explaining why this is the case. Thankfully, unlike some other desktop environments, with Ubuntu I can change the theme and window button positions if I decide this change is not for me in the long-term. I guess time will tell.