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Ubuntu and window controlsUbuntu and window controlsPosted Mar 30, 2010 17:09 UTC (Tue) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)Parent article: Ubuntu and window controls Instead of the traditionalfor Linux anywaybuttons in the upper right of a window Sigh. I've come to expect better from LWN, but anyway this is completely wrong. Traditionally, the close button was in the top left, and maximize/iconify buttons were on the top right, both under Linux and in common with virtually ever other windowing system (mostly as a consequence of the IBM CUA guidelines). Then Microsoft released Windows 95 and moved all three buttons to the top right. No, I don't understand it either. From a usability perspective, it's a nightmare, with the close button being way too close to the others, for no obvious gain. But everyone copied them, and soon large numbers of X11 window managers were doing the same thing. Then after a while, OS X came along and moved everything to the left hand side, making even more usability mistakes by removing the visual differences between the buttons and relying solely on colour. But now, as with Win95 before it, we're starting to see people copying them. I don't understand that, either. But I tend to just let them get on with it. Morons will be morons, and there's nothing much I can do about it. Me? I've still got the CUA button layout. It works well, and I see no need to change it.
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