Comment 581 for bug 532633

I still say that placement of the buttons on the left is wrong.

But if you absolutely insist on doing this, there needs to be a user-visible option in the preferences GUI to allow someone to reposition the buttons via a check-box. Expecting people to launch gconf-editor from the "Run Application" window and type an arcane configuration string is not at all user-friendly. Expecting people to find out that this is what they need to do (such as by searching the bug reports or the online help facility) is user-hostile.