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Re: Inconsistencies from LHS buttons

 

Just cause mac does it, doesn't mean its the best. Mac doesn't have the
basic idea of window management in the upper left and notifications in the
upper right, we do.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 21:48, Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Tabbed Applications:
>>> Firefox, gedit, Nautilus, etc.  All these applications have their close
>>> buttons on the right hand side of their respective tab.
>>>
>>> Appearance Preferences:
>>> The thumbnails do not correctly show the LHS buttons for Ambiance,
>>> Radiance and Dust
>>>
>>> GNOME Shell:
>>> This may be something more for GNOME devs, but the window controls end up
>>> on the right when using GNOME Shell, also closing windows from the
>>> Activities Overlay also is in the upper right corner.
>>>
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>> +1, +1 and +1
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>>
> Taking into consideration that many of the interface ideas came from Mac,
> here's the thing: Firefox on the Mac OS X also has close-tab controls on the
> right side.
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> Alex Lourie
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