From kde-core-devel Thu Nov 15 09:21:24 2007 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:21:24 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: kwin default window button order. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=119511848516399 On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Thursday 15. November 2007 00:04:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > something that i've been wanting to see happen for a while is our window > > button order modified a bit. in particular, the defaults would be changed > > to "maximize, minimize, sticky, spacer*2, help, menu" on the left and > > "close" on the right. > > I fully back this, I have been amazed about the amount of times people, > beginners as well as experts, hit the close when they meant to hit the > maximize button. > All the reasons Aaron lists make a lot of sense to me. I set my close button on the left, on its own (instead of, as Aaron suggests, on the right) for two reasons: * If it's on the right, it's awfully close to the top button of the scrollbar. * The window menu button that has been traditionally on the left side for ages across lots of window managers and windowing systems closes the window when double-clicked. That makes it a sort-of close button already. Boudewijn