Beautiful awesomeness ---stupidity?---

[Dylan McCall]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Erik Andersen <erik.b.andersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I too would like to put in my vote for putting the buttons back on the
> right side in the order most people are used to.
> Thanks,
> Erik B. Andersen

I have opinions on both sides of the fence here. I am very concerned
about end users, though, so I think I'd agree with the "put buttons
back how they were" crowd for the most part. That, or at least a hack
to get the window button position controlled by the current Metacity
theme.
I'm leaning more towards just changing the order back, though. While
there may be some geeky merit in the different order, it breaks a lot
of themes and it reeks having with muscle memory moreso than the left
/ right thing does. (At least for me it does, and I am of course the
centre of the universe).

I observed something really neat with the way things are right now.
Moving a window is more Fitt's-law-ish (if you'll forgive the number
of times that law gets thrown about every day), since one can push the
mouse pointer to the top right of a window and, without a second
thought, start dragging it. This is helped by the enlarged target via
the (although slightly hacky :b) draggable menu patch in downstream
GTK. Having the window buttons on the left means the area to the top
right of the window is clear of obstruction, so there isn't a risk of
pressing something by accident.


Food for thought, anyway...

Dylan

PS: Anyone know what happened to the context menu on right clicking
the window title bar?