RE: Moving minimize/close buttons to the right side

I saw this question posed last in 2013? I find it hard to believe no one has posted on this since or that this is not a more frequent request. I too would like to move the open, close, minimize, expand buttons to the right hand side. I do not have OCD, but am just a right handed person who has been using PC's for over 30 years. I have recently picked up my first Mac and I am certainly enjoying a variety of the features and benefits over my past Windows machines. However, closing on the left hand side is simply a very unnatural feel for me. All the other primary control keys on the keyboard are on the right such as return, delete, and arrow keys. To then scroll the mouse over your document to the left hand side feels very clumsy, and, as I said, unnatural. This almost gave me pause to wonder if this was designed by a left handed person. More likely though, is just more of the shift in focus by designers (both at Apple and Microsoft) to be more supportive of entertainment and the consumer level user who simply takes in what they are fed, and less supportive of the business level user who requires more independent control and critical thinking about their work, how it is saved, and how it is designed.


Please prove me wrong and give me this small functionality. Allow me to move these controls to the right hand side.

Posted on Jan 13, 2018 3:54 PM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2018 4:04 PM

Couple of things:


1. The fact that you're the first posting on this in almost 5 years tells you how much of an issue it is.


2. Believe it or not business users have been working with those controls on the left since before Windows was launched. Macs had them there in the very first GUI. Don't hold your breath, it won't change.


3. If it really is that much a problem, how about learning the simple keyboard shortcuts - which are faster anyway.


command-w closes the window

command-m minimises it

control-command-f makes it full screen

escape will get you out of full screen.


or


4. If it's that important, go to another OS that works the way you want. You can install most anything on Mac hardware with Bootcamp now.

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Jan 13, 2018 4:04 PM in response to BigJandtheHbombs

Couple of things:


1. The fact that you're the first posting on this in almost 5 years tells you how much of an issue it is.


2. Believe it or not business users have been working with those controls on the left since before Windows was launched. Macs had them there in the very first GUI. Don't hold your breath, it won't change.


3. If it really is that much a problem, how about learning the simple keyboard shortcuts - which are faster anyway.


command-w closes the window

command-m minimises it

control-command-f makes it full screen

escape will get you out of full screen.


or


4. If it's that important, go to another OS that works the way you want. You can install most anything on Mac hardware with Bootcamp now.

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