Re: It is indeed, a very sad day...

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On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:24, Kevin Worthington wrote:
> > What sort of things do you like better/worse with KDE compared to GNOME, 
> > and vise versa?  I haven't used KDE since version 1.1.2, so I don't 
> > really know how KDE compares anymore.  It looks nice. :-)
> 
> In KDE the big reason I liked it over GNOME (not big in reality), was
> the layout of the minimize, maximize, close buttons. In GNOME I didn't
> like the placement of the close button in the top left. Now with
> Metacity, this is no longer the case. I guess after being exposed to
> Windows 3.11, 95, 98 and upwards, I got used to it all being in the
> top right. I've been programmed to Microsoft to like it that way
> unfortunately... ;-)

Actually, I consider it pretty much stupid, braindead and retarded to
keep such a destructive button (close) in a series of small buttons
displayed all together and on the same side of the window.

In my wm (sawfish), I'm running a theme called absolute-darkness.
The window layout is:

.[min][max][menu][  Title   ][close]_________________.
|                                                    |

It could/should be improved to (so close is always where you expect):

.[min][max][menu][           Title           ][close].
|                                                    |

Plus, max has some pretty quircks:
  (un)maximize vertically on middle mouse button click
  (un)maximize horizontally on right mouse button click

This is a lot more sane than the MS Windows style.

Totally different from what the common guy is used to? Absolutely.
More usable? Yes.
Safer? Yes.

Why mimic what's bad?

Rui

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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