I don't think anyone's purposes are served by approaching this as an
"or" question and dwelling on personal and pseudo-logical reasons for
supporting one form or another. Some people like the previous Windows-
style setup; others are fond of the left, OSX-like orientation.
As we've seen from the
Alex,
The problem is very straightforward, and while the initial report in
this thread could obviously have been expanded a bit, it won't add much.
Upon upgrading to Lucid, the window controls for all windows were
reordered (max / min / close rather than min / max / close as they were
previously)