Comment 241 for bug 668415

@magnesus2; this change would cost the same number of hours to make, irrespective of when it is made. If a moveable Launcher had been designed and built right at the start of Unity development, a bunch of other features and fixes that are currently in Unity would have had to be dropped. We are following a MVP strategy of first building out all the areas of required functionality as quickly as possible, and then going back and adding depth. This is the correct path to take, a OS with a over engineered Launcher and under-engineered everything else is not very useful. We need to balance the depth of functionality across all areas of the OS, not over resource one area, and as a result under resource other areas.

@dabisu; no, it is not reasonable to ask for the months of design work, testing, meetings, etc to be summarized for your convenience. The time it would take to do this is much better spent on designing new features, refining already delivered functionality, and supporting developers who are in the middle of building out 12.04, etc... If you come to UDS I will happily spend a lunchtime talking to you about Launcher positioning, and even then there would not be time the discuss the entire picture. But the offer is open, come to UDS and we will talk about it over lunch.