Beautiful awesomeness ---stupidity?---

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

> On 7 March 2010 22:56, Alex Launi <alex.launi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I don't think that new users will crap their pants over the window controls
> > being on the left, I think we've all seen OSX before.
I'm pretty sure this whole issue is going to become a flamewar until
Lucid is released, if not beyond - sorry for that. But I find it really
bad that in an open project like Ubuntu such visible changes are not
discussed and elaborated publicly, instead of being released late in the
cycle with any explanation.

Last cycle Canonical pushed the "Ubuntu Software Store", whose name
prompted heated debates, before changing its name to something less
commercial. Now it seems we're going to suffer from those internal
fights again, and I'm sure in the end Lucid will ship with something
more sensible. Couldn't this have been discussed calmly in the desktop
list before any choices are made? Couldn't the ubuntu-art list have been
made part of the process, instead of letting them know when everything
is over [1]? These times, I too often feel like volunteers are
second-class citizens in Ubuntu.

I won't comment on the design choices themselves, because what I don't
like in them is merely IMO a consequence of the lack of prior
concertation. Just a sarcastic comment about the fact that with the
upcoming switch to GNOME Shell, the left corner of windows will be just
next to the Activities hot corner - better be aware of it, reverting the
window buttons order for 10.10 would be quite ridiculous...


Hope I didn't hurt anybody, the whole point is in the process, not in
the skills of individuals.


1: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2010-March/011840.html