Comment 727 for bug 532633

Per explicit request of Mark Shuttleworth: here is "data" on where my mouse pointer rests: _near the right end of the line I am reading_ . This is where it "naturally" goes (yeah, sometimes, when I'm tired, I do read with my mouse pointer, like old people read with their finger). This is also where it is the less visually distracting. The left margin in most applications and web pages is too small to fit a pointer. And having it rest in the menus is impossible as well because of highlighting and risk of misclicks. It is also conveniently close to the scrollbars which I do use, and to the Google bar in Firefox.

PS: I'm a Debian user, so I would normally not care. Except that this egoistic Canonical decision breaks compatibility across Linux distributions. Given the huge impact of this decision on the desktop experience in the long term, other distros will have no choice but to submit to the Ubuntu way at one point, or to fork Gnome. I resent Canonical making such far-reaching decisions behind closed doors.