Comment 8 for bug 997322

It's not even about the real estate for me. It's about the feeling I have about Ubuntu generally - clean, simple, fun and usable out of the box, but completely on my terms and with great freedom to change it - hitting a snag every time I see that icon that I will never, ever click, because if I'm going to have more than one workspace I'm not allowed to only see the means of switching between them that I actually use (and I can't even rearrange it).

While it's a trivial bug in terms of practical impact, it does impact on my experience Unity that I can adjust so much if I want, but can't get rid of the useless (to me, I can see its value to others) icon without commenting out the code and rebuilding (which then causes issues with updates). It would be great if it was on a par with the show-desktop icon and the rules as to volumes are shown always, never, or when mounted.