Comment 759 for bug 532633

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Avetik Topchyan <email address hidden> wrote:
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> @Shane Fagan: I disagree that this is not a big deal. This is about
> user-friendly vs. difficult. I don't think that your positioning buttons
> to left corner by default counts as "innovation". Not providing users an
> easy way to use it as they find fit is called making it hard on purpose.
> >From design perspective, it is a big deal. I speak as an end user.

The current situation, as has been repeated many times here, is that
button layout is specified by individual themes. So, the default
button layout, in a gconf sense, is still
menu:minimize,maximize,close. The Ambience theme (the default theme)
specifies close,maximize,minimize:. Other themes have their buttons on
the right. From my perspective, this looks pretty logical and makes
considerably more sense than having button layout detached from the
selected theme.

Do you feel this is insufficient? Were you aware of this? Perhaps
something can be done to draw attention to the change.