Comment 265 for bug 668415

JohnLea wrote:
>@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.

Thank You for your explanation. Like I said, I understand why it would be difficult, but could the ubuntu dev team consider it in a release? And I don't mean next release necessarily, I just mean, some time in the future.

Here are some reasons to allow movement of the launcher by default:

1. Left-handed Users:
Having the launcher on the right could be ergonomically difficult for left-handed users.

2.Accidental Activation:
It seems easier to activate the launcher accidentally (while watching YouTube videos, playing games, etc.) when it is on the left.

3.User-friendliness:
In my opinion, users should be able to customize most of the interface of an OS out-of-the-box.

Those are just my personal opinions which are subject to debate. ;)