Comment 142 for bug 668415

Have you counted how many requests to change Unity launcher position we have
here?
Have you read the following articles?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTczOQ
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73026.html

I can't find all the articles that I have read this year about how people
are feeling bad with this desktop changes, in time to answer you quickly.
But these are few of them, that I have found here.

Unity and Gnome 3 are in the same path, so I think that this issue should
apply to the second article.

I wish only to remember Mark, that I'm acting on the behalf of the Ubuntu
users that I represent here in my neighborhood, college and friends. They
are all unhappy with Unity. It is resource hungry, inflexible and brings me
many problem maintaining that.
When you say, " Instead of complaining, please find a constructive way to
engage, or leave." you are not considering that criticizing is a way to show
what is wrong. With this thought you leave us, with few options other than
"leave".
When you write "Status: New => Won't Fix" this makes me think that even that
I write a patch that fixes these issues and send them to you, it won't be
merged, because it's not your interest to change the look and feel that you
previously imagined.
It is a very sad situation.
Please read carefully the posts above, so you can get a better idea of what
is going on.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> On 28/10/11 12:01, Fernando wrote:
> > It seems that Mark is putting Ubuntu community aside with this Unity.
>
> There are many community members who have contributed to Unity. There
> are many who have said they love it, and some who have said it does not
> work as well for them. There are lots of developers and lots of
> designers working to improve it. Instead of complaining, please find a
> constructive way to engage, or leave.
>
> > The majority of users was comfortable with the older interface.
>
> Change is coming regardless, best we be ahead of that curve, don't you
> think?
>
> > I don't know why they are so ignorant with us.
>
> Disagreeing with you is not being ignorant of your needs or thoughts.
>
> Mark
>
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> duplicate bug report (821156).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668415
>
> Title:
> Movement of Unity launcher
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Won't Fix
> Status in NULL Project:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Won't Fix
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Please consider this a possible feature request or wishlist.
>
> Now when Unity will be default desktop for 11.04 could you please
> consider to add option to configure Unity launcher placement. Add
> simple option to lock/unlock through right-click menu and drag
> launcher to desired location like left/right and bottom.
>
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--
Fernando