Comment 53 for bug 882274

As far as I can tell, this is all about one issue - moving the launcher. The left-side launcher is the single point of failure in Unity, which is otherwise a good interface. For whatever design or user testing suggested that every single user wants the launcher on the left, in the real world, some people want it on the bottom or on the right, and some of those people aren't going to use Ubuntu at all if Unity doesn't let them put it there. Does anyone seriously think Ubuntu will have 200 million users in three years if those users can't even move the dock? Ubuntu isn't competing with Android and iOS. Those are mobile operating systems. Ubuntu is a desktop operating system.

Eventually, the community is going to patch the launcher to work correctly, because in the eyes of the community, a launcher that doesn't move is incorrect.