Comment 24 for bug 930148

Decisions like this made me leave Ubuntu with Unity for Xubuntu. I mean, what's the point in using a CPU and GPU-intensive shell when it does a way worse job than Xfce + Gnome-do?

I understand that overabundance of features clutters GUIs and complicates maintenance. However, this feature already has a GUI element (for switching between 'always show' and 'autohide'), and I don't think this feature complicates code more than it gives advantage to us, advanced users.

I mean, you can target your OS for average Joes, but they won't install it by themselves anyway; we, advanced users, will do it for them and we won't unless we use (and therefore know) the system ...