Comment 25 for bug 930148

Worst, attracting new users is a good thing but if you keep disappointing intermediate and advanced users with many hazardous decisions and thus make them flee, the amount of users remains the same at the end of the day, that's not even a logical business decision. Attract AND keeps requires more balance in the choices.

As for arguments for this essential bug to be resolved:

- Dodging or Intellihide or whatever you call it is just the smart behaviour, for many reasons: 1. The launcher gets out of the way when you don't want to have it (e.g. maximizing a window, or snapping 2 windows vertically); 2. but still is there when you want it; 3. You don't have to make that annoying (and slightly time-consuming) gesture to the edge of the screen to get the launcher when that's not useful to do it (no window maximized), and that's a major complaint I have against Gnome Shell as well; 4. The icons in the visible launcher allow you to see at all time which applications have a running instance and even the number of instances for the specific application, and this overview is needed (another complaint against GS as well, where you must trigger the dash with a large and annoying gesture, especially on touchpads, to get such a basic overview); 5. As mentioned by zzecool, many dynamic features over the icon appeared and what's the point if you can't see them most of the time?
Regarding productivity and Unity's possibilities, that's an absolute need.

- So, for the very same reasons "Auto-hide" is the least natural (not to say the most stupid) behaviour. And not mentioning the issues of the launcher spreading over buttons, content, and such. Very unconfortable. That would be the one to remove if wanting to save resources.

- Then, you have "Never hide", which wastes a lot of space, but above all completely distorts the Ambiance/Radiance theme, making it dreadfully inconsistent with maximized windows (not to say ugly, but that's more of a personal opinion). It may be good as default not to confuse newcomers, but on the other hand, the theme inconsistency will push them away. Balance, here we come again...

The excuse of removing it for not having to maintain it is not valid, since Canonical is spending many resources on groping around in a lot of directions way more resource-consuming (and sometimes pointless, such as HUD, considering it's a LTS release).

I've always supported or found my way around the orientation taken in Ubuntu, but removing this would be the dead end for me, the one blocking obstacle making me switch, because of it's very negative impact on my workflow, even if it may seem insignificant. So please do something about this decision.