16 things that could be improved in Ubuntu 10.04

“In this post I’m going to list 16 things that I think could be
improved in Lucid. I’m going to try my best to address the issues
in detail and offer solutions. Of course, all of this is also a
matter of opinion too. The object of this post is to make you think
about ways we could improve each one.I’ll try to link to bugs where
there are bugs, but a lot of these are quite new design decisions
only present in 10.04 and hence don’t have bugs filed.

“All of these screenshots were taken about two hours after I
installed Lucid Lynx alpha 3, daily build from Saturday March 6th
2010. Read: after the UI freeze.

“Window Controls

“There are two things wrong with the new window controls in the
Lynx.

“Firstly, the controls are on the left. This is bad because:

* Ubuntu users are used to them being on the right
* Windows converts to Ubuntu will have yet another reason why they
don’t want to switch
* There is no particular reason for moving them to the left, it’s
change for the sake of change
* It makes windows unbalanced (window controls, window options,
window title, sidebars and breadcrumbs etc are now all on the
left)”

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