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Macbuntu?Macbuntu?Posted Mar 25, 2010 5:33 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)Parent article: Ubuntu and window controls
Just because Apple does it, doesn't mean it's right. Users here at work STILL get confused by the traffic-light bauble window control buttons.
See, eg: http://mac.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Address-Close-Bu...
Which does what? Who knows! Mouse over them and pale embossed looking icons will appear, but they're still not all that good. Now, what's being done for 10.10 isn't that bad, but it still sounds ... interesting.
Apple's design there is one of the more widely reviled UI design choices, and I can't for the life of me figure out why they'd do anything like it.
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Macbuntu? Posted Mar 25, 2010 5:36 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]
In a reply-to-self, it _is_ worth noting that the proposed buttons are a LOT clearer and better than the Mac OS X ones.
Also, Apple's button positioning on the top left is "right" psychologically for left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading cultures (ie: increasingly all of them) because the top-right corner is a visual dead zone that we're not good at noticing things in. So copying that much _is_ a good idea.
As for the close box not being edge-most... that seems pretty strange.
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