On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:53:14 +0200 Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Only now, I have realized that, logically, it was possible to rearrange all the elements of Unity in such a way that it was logical, ergonomic, saved space, and moreover kept the window frame close button at its usual place, but it was not possible with the Unity configuration anyway. > 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 For example, Firefox 24.8.0 in stable Gentoo tree when outdated 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.) > >
