There's a simple setting you can change in gconf to fix this (at least there used to be): /apps/metacity/general/button_layout. You should set it to "menu:mini

There's a simple setting you can change in gconf to fix this (at least there used to be): /apps/metacity/general/button_layout. You should set it to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" to get the old functionality back.