Comment 41 for bug 765819

@Nathan: This is not a „final solution” for a simple reason and design problem:

The basic idea of the launch bar is the ability to hide to allow an application window to occupy the whole screen (which is in principle a good idea), while still beeing usable and responsible through mouse events.

This necessarily bears the risk of interfering and conflicting with the user interface of the window it wants to grant screen space.

The launch bar suffers from the design flaw that X11 is not designed to have two programs beeing responsible at the same time for a rectangle on the screen. The X11 idea is that one window is in front, while others become inactive about user in- and output. The basic design flaw of the launch bar is to break this principle without having X11 ready for this.

Beyond that, in my personal perception, this launch bar is highly annoying because of it's too large icons and it's obtrusive animations. It's too coltish to be ergonomic.

Gnome 2 had (at least in my eyes) definitely the much better user interface by placing small program icons onto the top bar and simply offering the application tree. I'd really appreciate if there was an option to completely get rid of that launch bar and get back to a Gnome2-like appearance. Gnome2's appearance was good the way it was, at least significantly better than everything oneiric can offer.

I think the best solution would be to implement this option to turn the launch bar completely off and teach the top bar to behave like Gnome 2 did when not needed to display the menues of a fully enlarged windows.

regards