"furthermore, this feature depends on gnome-panel, which we won't install by default in Oneiric"
I am about 100% certain it uses nautilus not gnome-panel.
Furthermore, instead of removing this incredibly valuable tool how about REMOVING UNITY AND INSTALLING FREAKING GNOME 3.
Furthermore, if you remove this needed functionality you will be removing more users from Ubuntu than you add.
"furthermore, this feature depends on gnome-panel, which we won't install by default in Oneiric"
I am about 100% certain it uses nautilus not gnome-panel.
Furthermore, instead of removing this incredibly valuable tool how about REMOVING UNITY AND INSTALLING FREAKING GNOME 3.
Furthermore, if you remove this needed functionality you will be removing more users from Ubuntu than you add.