Comment 61 for bug 668415

I'm writing to support Liamo comment #60.

I have that exact setup: two monitors, where my right monitor is primary. Because of the way my desk is arranged, the left monitor is not in front of me, and having the Launcher there would be a pain -- literally, to my neck.

The "best" option I have now is the Launcher on the left of my right screen. It's a rather sad option.

I've tried to make the launcher to never hide, which would be better, but that creates another bug, which I've reported separately: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/772889

It seems that this rather common use case has been overlooked! The design concept is perfect on my single-screen laptop, but for my desktop environment Unity is frustrating. While it's possible for me to use other shells or desktops, as Mark suggests, it would require me to use an entirely different workflow for my desktop and my laptop, not to mention the 5 other Ubuntu computers I use. Not a lot of "unity" in that experience. ;)

A comment to Mark: your very terse "won't fix" response here is not one of your finest moments of engaging the community. Some people may be clamoring for customization for its own sake, which doesn't make sense to me and may try your patience, but some of us are pointing out a serious usability problem. Mark, perhaps the design "vision" for this particular issue could use some rethinking?

To add insult to my injury: my native language is written right-to-left. But, I'm not even going to try it with Unity, and stick to English. (Even if Unity worked nicely, other parts of the desktop would surely break from my experience!) So, is part of Unity's "vision" to enforce a left-to-right world?

I'll just add that I happen to love Unity's vision generally. It's a refreshing pleasure to use on my (English) laptop, and I would love to have the same on my desktop. I just don't see this happening without the Launcher being movable to the right, but would happy to hear a different solution (other than to rebuild my office!).