Comment 10 for bug 388205

couldn't the solution be simply move the close button on the left?

when i close an application i have a high possibility to want to switch to one of the background application -- since right now the close button is on the right i have to move the mouse on the top right (with a chance to miss and hit date & time) and then move the mouse completely on the left to change applications.

From a usability point of view if the close button was on the left we would have important benefits because
a - we'd get a reduced access time to the other application as there's no need to move the mouse from the opposite side of the desktop
b - we could rarely miss (and open other apps or menus) because if the close button were on the left, on the right side of it there would be the window title and on the left side of it there would be the window icon

I'd really prefer to keep the topright corner reserved for shutdown&co