Mark, if you'd let someone entirely unrelated plunk an oar in for a minute, I 
think "However, it does line things
up nicely for work I would like us to do in future." is at the nub of this. 
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 Other Stuff. It gives people all the drawbacks of 
the re-arranging with none of the benefits of the Cool New Stuff, so it's not 
that surprising that they wind up belly-aching.

You said somewhere that you think it's better to 'get ready' for the
change now, but...why? I don't see how it would be innately more
difficult for people to adjust to the new layout once you've got the
Cool New Stuff ready, and then they'd have the Cool New Stuff to make up
for having to adjust to the new layout. Sure, it probably wouldn't be
any _easier_ either, but that's not really a sufficient argument for
doing it now. If you did it when the other changes are ready too, it'd
probably make a lot more sense to people. If you've covered this
somewhere, sorry, but if I haven't seen it, probably a lot of others
haven't either =)

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[light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to 
"menu:minimize,maximize,close"
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