Comment 16 for bug 930148

Removing Intellihide completely is a step backwards. It was one of the features that set Ubuntu apart from all the other operating systems. It was innovative.

I'd like to highlight a problem with a fixed launcher. More and more websites are being designed using responsive web design techniques. In short it means that websites adjust their information representation based on a couple of factors like screen width, height and more.

Viewing a website like http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ on a laptop with a resolution of 1024x768 with the launcher set to always display will result in that page to believe you are a tablet computer and change its information representation accordingly. Some website features won't be available. That website is only one example.

Now "that" is a problem!

It is no problem that the usability tests revealed that Intellihide is confusing - regardless of how illogical that might be - it doesn't mean that it should be completely removed. Ubuntu has taken a lot of flak for ignoring its power users. I'm not sure why you think that removing a such an important feature would help with that problem.

What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't make any sense at all to remove the features completely from Ubuntu. Keep it as an optional launcher behavior setting, hide it and make it available only from the gconf-editor if you want but DON't remove it. It just makes no sense.