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["Paulo J. S. Silva" <pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx>]

In particular I would like to see addressed the concern that a user my
hit one of the buttons while aiming at a menu and hence may get an
unexpected behavior. The most destructive situation  would be to hit
the close button when aiming at the (popular) edit menu.

Note that the other OS that has buttons on the left, OS X, does not
have its menus on the windows, they live in the top bar. Hence this in
not a problem in that case.

best,

Paulo

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Victor <vm.kalbskopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I noticed in 10.4 beta1 that no concessions were made, not even giving the
> option to move the window controls back to the right hand side.
>
> I hope this email does not come across as demanding or impatient. If it
> does, please forgive my lack in writing skills.
>
> Will some one in the design team please give some reasons as to why it is
> better to have the controls on the left as apposed to the right.
>
> I have heard various reasons as to why it may not be so bad having them on
> the left but none as to why it is better.
>
> And change for the sake of change is not better.
>
> Some usability test results would be nice.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Victor Kalbskopf
>
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Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação
(Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.)
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

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