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from #28 "The complaints are probably all from recent Windows converts."
I think it's presumptious to assume that:
a) the people requesting this change for linux builds are recent windows converts. In fact I can only imagine that this comment was made to do two things. First was to diminish the agency of those who are actually recent windows converts and view this as a reasonable request. And second to create a false hierarchy, those who have been using *nix for x amount of time, and those who haven't and the presumption that anyone greater than X has more say, and thus a bigger vote.
b) that long time *nix users don't also consider this a reasonable request. (speaking from the point of view of someone who has been using the *nixes for quite some time an can say that certainly it's not only recent windows converts). Infact clearly the developers of such popular desktop environments as GTK and QT have decided on one, and the fact that firefox doesn't conform to the standards of these desktop environments is not only inconsistent, but to most people who use these systems it seems broken.
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Thus far the developers have done a good job of moving more and more to closer consistency with the desktop top environment being used, this has been a stated goal of at the very least the widgeting system and the theme. The developers seem quite aware that consistency on a desktop are one of the more important usability rules, and I would hope that they can recognize that simply by try it out on a few applications native to those environments this behaviour isn't consistent.
Simply because Unix used to do it one way, the current environment does it another, and while I understand that there needs to be some stability to prevent a project from flipping back and forth and changing in the wind. I don't see this changing any time soon.