I'm against making that change, at least now, without having them a few months in "beta testing" for find out all the "regression bugs" that it generates and how the people feel about it. Maybe since the first 10.10 alpha? > > The fact that this is an LTS cuts both ways. If I'm confident that > 10.10, 11.04 and future releases will have the controls on the left, it > makes even more sense to do it now (because the LTS will then not look > dated compared to newer releases). As a precedent, we shipped Firefox > 3.0*beta* for 8.04 LTS, which caused an uproar but was the right > decision given that 2.0 was nearing its end of life at the time. > I don't think that the FF 3 situation is the same, you knew that a few months later everything was going to be OK. Now you will have a half backed solution that will still around for 2 years. I think that you can always give the 10.4 users the option to move the buttons to the left in 6 months in an update if all those experiments work out.
> Our design roadmap calls for us to reduce the visibility of scrollbars, > and emphasise: > > - touch scrolling > - scrollwheels > > Most people don't scroll with the scrollbar any more. The use the > scrollbar to gauge "how much fo the document am I seeing". Please don't get rid of it, I don't think that the mouse is going away any time soon, specially in the enterprise and the scroll bar is the best way to go directly to a specific point in a large document. -- [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532633 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
