Comment 30 for bug 346095

It is ridiculous to go backwards in functionality; it is even more ridiculous to offer me a settings program to switch the location of notifications if it doesn't do anything. Please, offer the functionality of previous offerings, and allow us to specify where the notifications appear, and which direction they go. Otherwise this is just one more component of the GNOME desktop that everyone is going to want to replace, and which will thus be replaced in the GNOME desktop again anyway within a minor revision or two (if history is any guide.)

As other users have stated, this is a usability issue. Since when is restricting choice the Linux way? And since when is "go change the source, kid" the Ubuntu way? I can't help but think that there's probably a more useful, non-official response in the forums someplace.