This bug shouldn't be marked as low importance. This is an usability
issue that impacts the very first impression of ubuntu.
As an example, I installed Ubuntu in a netbook for my parents.
Because they value simplicity, I made the netbook login automatically,
opening the web browser and skype
John Lewis wrote on 2010-03-19:
Basically when everything has to be decided
by committee/consensus view it a) slows the
decision making process down a lot and
b) some pretty silly decisions get made in the
interests of trying to keep everyone happy.
Rafael Gattringer wrote on 2010-03-20:
My mouse cursor usually hovers around the right side
of windows because the vertical scroll bars are on the
right. Also, since I read left-to-right, it seems easier to
interact with windows at the right side.
That's a very good point.
There's no sense moving the min/max/close buttons to the
Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
Our design roadmap calls for us to reduce the visibility of
scrollbars, and emphasise:
- touch scrolling
- scrollwheels
If you are actually considering touch scrolling, than you should also
consider that touch screens are much less precise than mouse pointers:
Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But
we are not voting on design decisions.
Mark,
I completely understand and agree with your position -- you are the
benevolent dictator for life, and Ubuntu is not a democracy.
HOWEVER, I also
Adam Williamson wrote:
You've said a couple of times that the idea is to free up the right hand
corner
for Other Stuff You Will Put There Later, which is a valid idea. What I don't
get,
though, is why you think it makes sense to do the freeing-up before you've got
around to inventing the
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: casper
I'm trying to boot from a usb flash drive without starting X. The
manpage
(http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man7/casper.7.html) says
that there is a parameter called 'textonly' - but when I add this
parameter to the standard boot
