Comment 233 for bug 668415

@flyingfisch; I posted the reasons we are not able to add Launcher movement atm in comment #226. Basically implementing this change so that it works correctly with all the other Unity elements in a bug free manner is *a lot* of work from both a design and development standpoint. Our limited resources are currently best spent elsewhere (quality improvements, feature development). A change like this would introduce a lot of bugs, and this is not something we can do until the backlog of existing bugs is resolved.

For very tech. savy users who don't mind bugs, patches are the way to go in order to preview functionality that has not yet met the quality standard required to land in main Ubuntu. See http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html for a great patch Pavel Golikov has written that moves the Launcher to the bottom.