On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:05:16 +0000 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:25:22 +0200, Gevisz wrote: > > > I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing > > window button "x" to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of > > Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) > > Wouldn't it have been easier to use the simple configuration option to > move the button back to where you expected it? Far less effort than > switching distros. No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window frame button and have argued that it is more ergonomic. There was not any possibility to change the place of the closing window frame button in Unity via configuration options. Quite a lot of Ubuntu users complained about it yet in Ubuntu 10.04, where the new place of that button was a new default though it was possible to change it back via configuration options. In Unity, it was absolutely impossible. I even can agree with them that a new place of that button was logical, ergonomic and saved screen space. So, there was nothing bad placing it there by default, especially for those who never used computer before. Even more: if they just had changed a default and allowed changing it back via configuration option, I would probably switched to the new place of that button later. It is *forcing* old users to change their habits just after upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LST to Ubuntu 12.04 LST make me looking for an alternative distribution. And it was the first time when I carefully looked though all the alternatives and make my choice consciously. (Before that my choice was mainly influenced by the people who helped me to install and maintain my first Linux systems: Suse at the time when it was still free :), Red Hat :(, or just advised me to try them: Alt Linux, Ubuntu.) I think that I made the right choice now and I like Gentoo distribution, though it has its own shortcomings. For example, Firefox 24.8.0 in stable Gentoo tree when outdated Ubuntu 12.04 has Firefox 33.0. (It is not that I am running for the version numbers but Google sites do not support Firefox 24.8 any more.)
