Comment 160 for bug 668415

On 28/10/11 17:20, Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote:
>Is that true of the iPad springboard and the Android favourites? I don't
>believe it is. Change is coming to the desktop whether we like it or
>not. Better for us, and for free software, to be ahead of the curve on
>hose changes, than behind. This is an opportunity, not a threat.

I don't know about the iPad, but for Android for sure people are
doing a lot of alternative configurations of the desktop. In any case,
do you really believe change will be stopped because the desktop is
made more configurable?

I insist, I believe the position of the launcher is a very minor point, both
from the point of view of users, none of the new Unity users that I met
have asked me to change the position, but this is just my experience,
and from the Unity design team, the default position can be on the left,
but the Unity design will not be broken if there is a tweak to move it.
The autohide feature makes the launcher invisible and the Unity experience
and design is not broken without it, as the transparency makes the top
bar also almost invisible, but there is much more in Unity than the launcher
and the top bar.