Comment 34 for bug 765819

Personally I set the unity icon size to 32px and the launcher to never hide, I lose a few horizontal pixels, but it is much easier to use without the launcher popping in and out every time I want to use something on the left side of an application. I am unconvinced that an autohiding launcher is the best default to have, it is on the left because the modern widescreen aspect ratio is in fact a shortscreen and vertical pixels are at a premium, however horizontal pixels are cheap and the launcher is useful to look at even when you don't want to interact with it and launch something or switch to something. Having it permanently visible makes it a lot easier to move the mouse to the icon I want to click rather than move the mouse to bring out the launcher, then look up and down for the icon I want, then move towards it, then bring out the launcher again because it vanished whilst I was using it!