Ubuntu
light-themes package

  1. Bug #532633
  2. Comment #713

Comment 713 for bug 532633

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Requiem Masamune (requiem) wrote : Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [Master] Window Control buttons: position/order/alignment

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:51 +0000, "Steven" <email address hidden> wrote:
> Why not just choose one of the following two solutions:
 Because it has been stated that ubuntu is trying to be *less*
configurable (Linus might have been right all along)

And because, honestly, I think the move to patch button order support
into metacity was so technically unnecessary, that I'm guessing the move
was not technical at all. I think it might be intended to move the
responsibility to theme makers to pressure them to make their themes
more fit for left alignment, or at least make them develop two versions
of each theme, as it is kinda obvious that mere relocating of buttons
breaks some theme designs.

Or maybe the dev team reasoned that the set of users who want the
buttons in the right overlaps significantly with the set of users who
use themes other than the default.

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