Re: It is indeed, a very sad day...

Kevin Worthington wrote:

>In KDE the big reason I liked it over GNOME (not big in reality), was the layout of the minimize, maximize, close buttons. In GNOME I didn't like the placement of the close button in the top left.
>

That would be the way you had your window manager configured.  IIRC the 
Red Hat "Clean" theme followed MSFT quite closely.  Same with the 
sawfish "Crux" theme, if you tweak the settings a bit.