Comment 64 for bug 532633

I agree with Conscious User whole heartedly on the reasoning front.

So far many people have provided numerous valid arguments re usability in the blogs and forums and in this bug report against making this change - breaking themes, breaking with another applications look and feel that don't use Metacity, restricting usability - for visually impared users, muscle memory, change to icon order, close icons too close to Edit/View menu in many applications etc etc. However no one is yet to provide any valid and convincing arguments for this change.

People are making assumptions, but even if those assumptions turn out to be valid they are very weak reasons for making such a change. People will/may get used to it, but that's not the point. I personally wouldn't get used to it becuase I switch daily between Microsoft Windows use and Ubuntu use. So I will apply whatever workaround is necessary to facilitate my own needs. But for new users to Ubuntu there needs to be an air of familiarity and this already exists even with dual panels.

This change breaks usability and compatibilty in a default LTS installation of Ubuntu and there is no official word for the reasoning behind it. Until we can enter into the discussion and challenge and understand those reasons this is a bug because something has changed with no explanation.