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by sqrt17
5900 days ago
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If change were always a good thing, and temporary uncomfort good - do you mind if I borrow that office chair of yours and replace it with a different one?
If you're still bored, there's this French-layout keyboard I could give you. And - no, don't use it with UK/US layout, that would be boring. Unwarranted change - one that you push onto others without asking, and without really having a good reason - is usually a bad thing in terms of usability - especially when one of your Linux machines suddenly has the window buttons on one side whereas all the others have them on the other. If it were a radical improvement in usability, I'd say go for it, but as it is, you're typically at the right side of a window when you don't want to have the mouse cursor inside it (or to be near the scroll bar, because the scroll wheel doesn't work when you're mousing over that flash movie), so you have to go a shorter way if the buttons are on the right. |
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These are not good examples. I just use whichever chair is closest to where I want to sit when I want to sit, and I switch between dvorak and qwerty more than once a day without even noticing any more. Likewise, I anticipate, whichever side the close button is on. These are utterly inconsequential changes. I'd be willing to bet that the time I would save each day by having the close button more often nearer to where the mouse pointer is when I need to close a window is swallowed up in a single digressive conversation lasting less than a few minutes.