Comment 146 for bug 668415

Very sad this.
I would recommend Mark to get a laptop with Ubuntu installed, and start
walking through the street of some capital of the world (like London, New
York, São Paulo, Tokio ...) and ask people to do basic things in this and
get their opinions about their experience. I'm pretty sure that people will
not be comfortable with Unity, specially people that usually uses Windows.
Recently I've read that Ubuntu laptops will be offered in China (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/28/dell_canonical_ubuntu_china_pcs/).
Given the current situation, I'm pretty sure that it won't go further, like
the past initiatives around this. The reason for that is that people gets
scared about the user interface.
I have lots of experience about this. I had installed Linux for many people
and they, at some point accepted gnome 2 interface. When Ubuntu updated to
11.04 and Unity came as the default desktop environment, many called me that
they were confused, they could find their applications menus, that bar that
riding and showing is very annoying and every other sort of complaints that
many of us already heard in our daily lives.
What I'm saying above is not my personal opinion, because I personally can
use only Open Box with a terminal and a browser and it is enough to me. But
people normal people (Lawyers, Teachers, Secretaries, Doctors, Nurses,
Salesman ...) can't interact with the computer in the same way as I
(Computer science student).
If Mark want us all to go to hell and leave him in peace, then we should
consider our options.
It is pretty sad this, because at some point, we all had contributed a
little to bring Ubuntu to it's current stage.
Now, we receive that: top down decisions that don't matches the needs of
many of us.
I really can't understand the advantages of Unity. I had really tried that,
but I couldn't.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Marco Biscaro
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Em 28-10-2011 10:09, Fernando escreveu:
> > 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.
> This is exactly what happened in bug #733349 (I've added a new option,
> the bug was marked as "won't fix" and the merge proposal was rejected).
>
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> 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