Comment 71 for bug 742544

This bug is driving me insane. It makes Unity almost unusable for me. I have two large monitors (24") with my primary display directly in front of me and the second one angled to the left.

I am very mouse-centric (I use very few keyboard shortcuts) and having to twist my neck all the way to the left monitor and target the mouse across two displays just to switch apps, which I do frequently (I am a software developer and use multiple concurrent apps constantly), is literally causing me neck pain!

Why can't I just drag the launcher to the top/left/middle of the entire display surface? That is by far the most intuitive UI behavior and would solve the "launcher placement" problem i a way that works for everyone. In 10.04 I had the launcher on my primary display, which put it in the "middle" of my total display surface. I set it in CCSM to not dodge windows so it always just stayed visible. This was ideal for my situation. 11.10 has seriously regressed in this regard.

I am trying hard to like Unity, but I am close to installing the gnome shell and being done with it.