Comment 150 for bug 668415

On the particular issue of not having the option to move the Unity launcher to some other part of the screen, I believe there is some sort of cognitive dissonance from everybody.

For users complaining about not being able to move the launcher, I believe that if you like Unity (like myself) this is not such a big issue, the whole Unity experience cannot depend on just one single feature, the position of the launcher. And if you don't like the Unity experience as a whole you will move away despite the launcher being movable, to any of the excellent options that we have within Ubuntu or somewhere else to the free software world.

On the Unity design team, I also see stubbornness. Every other application dock mechanism that I know (avant, docky, the one in MAC OS, the ones in Windows) can be placed anywhere in the screen that the user wants, and it does not seem such a difficult to implement feature that will increase development so much as to discard it, as all the other docks seem to show.