Comment 531 for bug 532633

Mark, clearly there MUST be enough data here by now, on the Internet in general, etc, to make a sound decision and back it up with clear and concise data. Right now this is taking a play right out of ex-president Bush's playbook... "Stay the course". If we see a "Mission Accomplished" sigh unveiled before the release, we know the boat is sunk.

I won't request to get any data from you or the UI team as to what changes (exactly or conceptually) are in mind for the right-hand space, I've given up on that. I'm trying really hard to not give up on Ubuntu as I've been a loyal user for years. I'll stick around until the release and see what transpires; but I'm not going to hack gconf and other things to try and counter what is done by default for such a major thing such as the button order and location. I spent way too many years fighting Microsoft and Windows, I'm just too tired of it all.

I've been working with computers since age 11 in 1978 - (32 years and counting now at age 43), and I'm perhaps a bit on the lazy and jaded side. I'm too used to things the way they are to switch. I'm pretty open to change, but some things that are and have been the core foundation of many OSes and GUIs, yeah... I'm not going to change that in myself. I'm too used to it the way it is and I LIKE it there anyway.