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Ubuntu and window controlsUbuntu and window controlsPosted Mar 25, 2010 5:50 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029)Parent article: Ubuntu and window controls
A long time ago, some windowing system (I don't even remember which one--maybe someone can help?) mandated that window controls be in the upper-left, EXCEPT for the close button, which would be all by itself at the upper right.
The rationale was that it makes it much more difficult for a minor mouse slip to accidentally kill an application.
This always made sense to me, but I have to admit after years of using cram-them-all-to-the-right interfaces, I can't think of a single time I ever made this mistake.
Canonical's decision seems to be a deviation from a widely-accepted and familiar convention without even the notional advantage of the approach I described above.
Head-scratcher.
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Ubuntu and window controls Posted Mar 25, 2010 8:30 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Fvwm, Mwm and Windows 3.x had the same layout: menu box, title, minimize,
maximize. Myself, using KWin, I've put close top-left, and min/max to the right. I've got no use for a menu box, but I do remember I often clicked close by accident when using Windows 95.
Ubuntu and window controls Posted Mar 25, 2010 18:24 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]
Exactly the same here, close alone to the left, no window-menu,
min/max/stick in the right corner.
Nice side effect is to watch other people being confused when they want
Alex
Ubuntu and window controls Posted Mar 25, 2010 17:23 UTC (Thu) by bferrell (subscriber, #624) [Link]
It all came from IBM CUA/CUI
Ubuntu and window controls Posted Mar 25, 2010 22:16 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It wasn't until I realised that IBM was responsible not only for SGML but
also for SQL and CUA that it finally dawned on me just how *evil* they used to be.
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