Hello Ivanka, thanks for sharing yours and the design team thoughts on this. I have some questions that I'm hoping you could answer.
I think Fitt's law is being cited not because of speed, but because of accidental clicking, something that can occur regardless if the user is in a rush or not. The menu bar and (now) the three buttons are small targets, placed in linear order. Even if the most destructive button is not on top of the most popular menu item (File), accidentally minimizing or maximizing a window is still annoying, and such risk does not exist when buttons are on the right. OSX can get away with it because of the Global Menu. There is also the issue of unbalancing. Again, because of of the Global Menu, the impression of asymmetry is much less drastic in OSX because the overall design of the Window is cleaner, and also because they center the title and put a pill button on the right. The current button placement creates a big pile of things on the left (buttons, menubar and toolbar while leaving a big empty space on the right). I am aware that this is highly subjective and symmetric does not necessarily mean better, but I'd like to know your thoughts on this. Finally, I couldn't help noticing that you made good points about how the proposed change is *not a regression*, but no points about how it is *an improvement*. This is the part I'm particularly more interested in. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
