Comment 239 for bug 668415

@Magnes
>left hand side is quite good default, but everyone is different, there are lefthanded people and poeple who have different >preferences than you, your test group or anyone. And you left (no pun intended) them with no choice.

Thanks to point this out. Indeed this is the one really important point, which is often ignored by all those design decisions.

@John Lea
You really do not need to explain. My thanks were honest. You at least appear to be someone who really cares. Instead of just throwing arguments based on "design decisions" at us, you try at least to explain.

But anyway, as Magnes pointed out, the initial design decisions were wrong and bad and (excuse me for that)... they were dumb. My problem is that "we", so the community, pointed out those mistakes when Unity was initially released. We were fed mock explanations and all these explanations were obviously untrue. Your explanation, why the launcher cannot be made movable at the moment, is the only truthful explanation I have heard so far. But it is an explanation which only describes problems that came into being by wrong decisions.
I can understand your explanation. Really. But the explanation also points out that design error have been made. Design errors that could have been avoided in the beginning if people had listened to the users which were complaining. Instead we were ignored and treated with only thinly veiled contempt. Even now, when there are 209 "affects me" voters we are ignored.It is said that there are millions of Ubuntu users and we are only 209. Whoever says so is unbearably ignorant. These 209 voters are a representation, a proxy, for those who really are affected by those issues. Do these (design)-decision-makers really think that only 209 voters want the launcher to be movable?
And "yes", there will be those who would keep it at the left side, even if it were movable. And there are those who want it at the right or at the bottom of the screen. You can indeed not satisfy every single user with the solution of a fixed launcher position which sticks to the left, to the right or to the bottom. Exactly this is the point WHY it should be movable.

And now one last comment. Have a look at this https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1aHvJ-iIw-59bXTYBmIhQqEx0za2h9jpFE_RhZ2VOvJc/edit?authkey=CJO5wPkH&hl=en_GB

It is one of Canonical's documents (found here http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/unity-multi-monitor-interactions/) . It is one of the few (if not the first) which shows at least some design goals. Thank you for that. But now read a quote:
"Locating the Launcher
There is no means to set the location of the Launcher in the Display Preferences panel. Instead, the Launcher is always available on every display."

Really? This is Canonical's great solution? Certainly this will work. But this is NO solution. It is a patch, or worse it is simply a form of jury rigging. Instead of acknowledging that there was some mistake in the basic design the solution is a "quick fix". And this is a LTS version? Well, certainly this solution will not produce any more errors. But do you think that any big company in the word will think this to be a real solution? A serious and respectable solution? Stop kidding yourself.