Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 3, 2010 22:16 UTC (Wed) by gerv (guest, #3376)
Parent article: Ubuntu changing its look

Quite like it, although I really hope they aren't going to move the window control widgets to the left side of each title bar. Why would you want to do that?

Also, it would be great if they fix my pet peeve with rounded corners. Make them look rounded, sure, but make them _behave_ square. Otherwise if you have a non-maximised window in the corner, and you do a Fitts-law slide and close, you end up closing the (maximised) window behind because the click sneaks through the tiny gap left by the rounded corner. <sigh>

Gerv

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Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 1:06 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link] (6 responses)

Too many gooks are moving to Apple, so they have to replicate Apple's design decision to put the
close, etc. on the left....

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 12:05 UTC (Thu) by cmsj (guest, #55014) [Link] (4 responses)

too many *what*?!

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 13:51 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link] (2 responses)

I reported the comment with the racial slur to lwn@lwn.net LATE last night.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:00 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

I suspect the word was probably not intended to be used as a racial slur (I had to look it up).

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:31 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

If it were meant as a racial slur, I would think it would have made more sense. As it is, it looks much more like a typo. This incident reminds me of an old George Carlin bit where he talks about the "7 dirty words you can't say on TV" - none of those, however, were racial slurs.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:13 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

I strongly suspect this is a typo/thinko for "geeks". It would be an enormous non-sequitur for it to be a racial slur on South-East Asians. (I had to look that up too.) Calm down :-)

Gerv

Let's be careful please

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:10 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I don't know if this was meant to be offensive or not, but I certainly expect that some readers will take it that way. I believe an apology would be in order, and let's not see any more of this kind of slur, please?

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 19:40 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

As the interfaces keep changing and I have little time to customize every system I work with, I find myself increasingly relying on the keyboard. I hope Alt-F4 would work regardless of the position of the close button.

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 19:51 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Quite like it, although I really hope they aren't going to move the window control widgets to the left side of each title bar.

They will probably be configurable, although I don't know why I would think that, since very little else in Gnome is.

Why would you want to do that?

It makes the Ubuntu desktop look more like OS X and less like Windows, which may create the impression among mainstream users that Ubuntu is a premium brand. (They may have said as much on the branding page, but I didn't read it-- I can't stand that sort of thing. The pictures are nice :)