That's my main issue with all this UI twiddling that Canonical are doing at the moment - the left hand buttons, the notify actions removal, removing tooltips fr

That's my main issue with all this UI twiddling that Canonical are doing at the moment - the left hand buttons, the notify actions removal, removing tooltips from indicator items, and gnome's great menu-icon removal of the last cycle. There's absolutely no data, no testing and no rationale to backup any of these changes. No-one has been able to point me to impirical data, or any user testing to explain why these sweeping changes have been made, because there hasn't been any. Some XU designer thought it looked 'cooler' or 'cleaner' that way, so it got changed - end of story. I really tried with the left hand title bar buttons - but after a week of 15 years of muscle memory putting my mouse in the wrong place every single time, I just had to change it back. Even if I had got used to it, so what? They're the same buttons in a different place - why is it an improvement to move them? If there's no demonstable benefit to moving them, why is it worth making all your users retrain their long established muscle memory? What's in it for them? If there _are_ demonstrable benefits to these changes - then tell people what they are - demonstrate them - rather than just telling people to shut up. That will cut down on the bickering comments no end.