Comment 301 for bug 532633
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| JD Evora (jdevora-saadian) wrote Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize, maximize, close" | #301 |
I'm against making that change, at least now, without having them a few
months in "beta testing" for find out all the "regression bugs" that it
generates and how the people feel about it.
Maybe since the first 10.10 alpha?
>
> The fact that this is an LTS cuts both ways. If I'm confident that
> 10.10, 11.04 and future releases will have the controls on the left, it
> makes even more sense to do it now (because the LTS will then not look
> dated compared to newer releases). As a precedent, we shipped Firefox
> 3.0*beta* for 8.04 LTS, which caused an uproar but was the right
> decision given that 2.0 was nearing its end of life at the time.
>
I don't think that the FF 3 situation is the same, you knew that a few
months later everything was going to be OK.
Now you will have a half backed solution that will still around for 2 years.
I think that you can always give the 10.4 users the option to move the
buttons to the left in 6 months in an update if all those experiments
work out.
> Our design roadmap calls for us to reduce the visibility of scrollbars,
> and emphasise:
>
> - touch scrolling
> - scrollwheels
>
> Most people don't scroll with the scrollbar any more. The use the
> scrollbar to gauge "how much fo the document am I seeing".
Please don't get rid of it, I don't think that the mouse is going away
any time soon, specially in the enterprise and the scroll bar is the
best way to go directly to a specific point in a large document.