Comment 629 for bug 532633

@ scholli
re: (Data and Gnome3)

Hmmm, I think we just agreed. :) Woohoo. Gnome3 is a big carrot of motivation to enable the moving the buttons to the left and not invoke the "pitchforks". In fact I would imagine some pitchforks would get invoked if the buttons didn't shift with Gnome 3 due to it being so "left heavy". Like I said, my wife didn't object with Gnome3 and buttons on the left, but was quite angry with Gnome2 and the same change. She's my "average test user", in fact about as average as it gets.

I'm not totally sure how others use their mouse, but keep in mind I rest my mouse a lot off center to the right, or at the bottom of the screen out of the way of the text I'm reading, or FAR right with the scroll bar. (guess the scroll bar needs to move?) That really doesn't change too much in Gnome3, and I don't necessarily care that much about how efficient my mousing is. :) But with Gnome 3 you're always headed up to the left corner to switch windows anyway, and having the close button up there simplifies the thought process a bit, without thinking about it changing anything. It just makes sense. Hence my preference for left buttons on Gnome 3.

Cheers
Jeff