Comment 77 for bug 668415

>We want the launcher always
>close to the Ubuntu button.

Who is "we"? Apparently not Ubuntu's users, since there is apparently a huge numer of users asking for this feature - as the various comments and bugs marked duplicate shows.

Wasn't Ubuntu all about the users?

This really reminds me of Pidgin's stupid "We won't make the input text-field resizable, since it does not fit into our broader design goals" or Gnome's "We won't give you a GUI option to switch of the blinking cursor in a terminal, since non-blinking cursors confuse the user and does not fit into our broader design goals"