Comment 68 for bug 668415

Dear Mark Shuttleworth, I humbly respect all you have done for the Ubuntu community. You have been the core of an extremely solid Linux based platform that to say is amazing is simply an understatement. But I have a problem. I run dual monitors. My main monitor is on the right. My monitors are also wide screen. What this means is my Unity bar defaults itself to the far left. If you had any idea of what my setup is like, you would understand the royal pain in the rear this is to use Unity in that situation. I use my 2nd monitor for displaying several things, such as email, a video surveillance feed, and often times a 2nd document that I'm working from on my 1st monitor. That being said, the amount of "mouse traffic" my 2nd monitor sees is very minimal since that monitor is basically a not-heavily-used display tool, however I HAVE to use it a lot because of Unity's stubbornness with defaulting to the far left and only the far left.

I would like to highlight what the user Tamale had to say above:

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Mark, I respect your design goals but they are simply not in line with the desktop PC experience. I think unity is fine for touch pads but for a significant portion of your userbase (everyone where I work has AT LEAST 2 monitors.. many have 3 or 4), these goals are NOT being well-realized.

I truly believe you're either going to have to allow these configuration choices or you'll have to create a separate ubuntu-desktop-pc package again.
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I cannot stress this enough. Mark. You truly need to open your eyes in this situation. There are lots of faithful users, like myself, running alternative desktop environments and/or Linux based distributions. Unity is a gorgeous, gorgeous desktop environment. But in its current state, it is only usable to a very sincere small amount of users.

Things. Must. Be. Changed. I hate to sound like this, but Tamale is dead-on. If Unity cannot be customized even to the simplest degree of moving the Unity bar to another monitor to suit that user's desktop, Unity will not fly nearly as high as the Ubuntu teams insists it will. I hate to see such a rock solid project not hit maximum potential because of "long term design goals" not fitting.

You and your team have done so much for this project, and I truly love Unity. But as far as I'm concerned, it's only usable on my laptop. Please listen to your users. Put the "long term design goal" argument to the side for now. We've listened, and we heard your case on why things won't change. But here's the catch... The users drive the product, and right now, the users are talking. But no listening is being done, as far as I can tell.

We all appreciate your time, and we all anticipate an uplifting answer.