Comments on: It’s time to fix the window controls

By: Getting to the bottom of the buttons | Words and pictures

Getting to the bottom of the buttons | Words and pictures — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:16:26 +0000

[...] There has been a lot of discussion about the experimental move of the window buttons (maximise, minimise, close) from the right hand side of the window to the left in the new theme for the next release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx. People have approved of the innovation, submitted it as a bug and helped people to change the buttons back to the right hand side. Some people said that they felt the decision to change the button location was made without consulting the community. [...]

By: 123

123 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:33:26 +0000

It’s looks like an orange butthole on the corner of every window. Please fix it.

By: Seven Minutes in Ubuntu | Thomas Park

Seven Minutes in Ubuntu | Thomas Park — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:11:02 +0000

[...] Linux in quite some time, and haven’t had to adjust to the changes that Unity brings (such as moving the window controls). So I’m probably just the user that Ubuntu is [...]

By: Thoughts on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) - Eric Heikes

Thoughts on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) - Eric Heikes — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:57:36 +0000

[...] of Ubuntu. Lynx was released on April 29, and I was wary of upgrading, mainly because of the interface changes in this [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:56:53 +0000

So – I have the answer to a burning question being – how do I change the position of the windows controls.
Noting that 8.04 was in-alignment with the use interfaces more familiar to me I thought there must be a configuration item to switch the controls. So it seems that there’s been a little tinkering to suit someone’s own preferences, ideals or neurosis in regards to HMI CUI design.
Failing to make the window controls a configuration item seems rather unwise.

By: Terry Moore

Terry Moore — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:34:39 +0000

Excellent article and I couldn’t agree more that this was a terrible mistake and that the buttons need to be moved back to the other side officially, ASAP. I blogged about how to move the buttons back to the other side back in March and it has been one of most visited posts. http://motersho.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/08/fix-minimizemaximizeclose-button-order-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:41:24 +0000

If they want to make the window controls like the window controls on Mac OS X, I'm fine with that. (I use Mac OS X a lot anyway, and am already comfortable with controls on the left side of the window.) They should at least get it right, however, with the close button on the far left of the title bar, and the minimize and expand buttons to the right of that button. It looks to me like they just moved the right hand centric window controls to the left, which is terrible ergonomics and design.

By: Mircea

Mircea — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:45:57 +0000

I like window controls on the left. I disliked them at first but I find them easier to operate on the left than on the right. It seems that my mouse is always closer to the left side than the right.

By: lynxStynx

lynxStynx — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:33:39 +0000

This is a stupid design decision. Fortunately, some of the themes still have them on the right so it’s easy to switch back. Morons.

By: junior

junior — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:27:15 +0000

It’s obvious that the people who run Ubuntu have started to get Bill Gates syndrome. Time to move to a different distro