GUI design: "Close" button

The "close" button should be as far away from maximize and minimize as possible. If you wanted to minimize a window and you accidentally hit close you'd be pissed. I had 100 tabs open in Firefox in Ubuntu and hit close. Now I have to reload all my tabs. Sure it saved my session but all the videos and shit have to rebuffer. Fucking annoying. Classic Mac, CDE, and Win 3.x were much better designs. Maximize and minimize on the right, close/icon menu on the left. "Modern" DEs copied the totally retarded Win 9x design. It was a good idea when xp made the "X" a big red button, but it would be even better to put it on the opposite side of the window.

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CDE and Motif are much maligned for being ``ugly'' but I think they're beautiful.

The ideal desktop for me would be a mix of CDE (window decorations, windows minimize to desktop) and NeXTStep (windows minimize to a neat row on the desktop, so you can set maximize constraints) sans non-menu launcher.

Fuck today's retarded ``minimalism'' trend. It's become a nightmare to use a mouse.