Comment 12 for bug 315119

Vish : yes, it is implemented in older theme (like crux). I don't know why it is not implemented anymore. The fact is that it is a feature offered by Metacity and that I don't understand why a theme might choose to not implement it "by design".

I totally understand the "send your patch" answer but, in this case, someone was willing to provide a patch and, by closing this bug, it is answered that a patch would not be accepted anyway. (and my guess that a patch from Thomas Thurman would be of very high quality).

Accessibility is, I agree, out of the scope. It was part of an experiment I was doing with users that lead me to discover that bug. I shouldn't have talked about that here. (This led me to conduct some experiments with older metacity themes like Crux, Gorilla, you know that kind of old stuffs, not really shiny)

And yes, you are right, it should be reported against the new default theme too.

Ubuntu has experimented putting the buttons on the other side of the window and I believe that implementing those buttons in new themes might maybe led to other experiments that might be useful (or not, but there's no way to know).

Don't get me wrong : this is not a major issue, I agree that is very low priority, I would not kill for it ;-)