Comment 272 for bug 668415

I think my comment could be ignored because many people already said them. But I cannot resist myself to say some complaints.

In the first place, I actually liked Unity showing a launchpad with big icons and Dash Home interface. I still like it. Then I wanted it to be on the bottom. Then,,, huh...? not allowed? And the reason is because of bugs to be introduced? And precious vertical space? I don't see why it would be difficult to implement this feature. And I don't understand other reasons either. I see a few features to be modified like: the place of ballooned name when I put my mouse pointer on top of the icon, and then....... anything else? Well, that's too much simplification (I know programming because I do) but the fact that changing position of the lauchpad would introduce bugs means a very poor initial design. And why did they think that all monitors are on landscape position? I see many people using portrait position. They'll waste a lot of vertical real estate.

Anyway, eye candies are really good in Unity. I like those eye candies. I also liked big icons listed in the Dash Home. Those designs are good. I think my 3-yr daughter might like it more than gnome 2. But I think I won't use it. Gnome 3 fallback mode looks much better and simpler. So... I'll go for Edubuntu which includes forced gnome 3 fallback mode (the reason why pure gnome 3 is not allowed is beyond my understanding though).

The fact that I like those large icons in Dash Home makes me guess that Metro interface of the Microsoft Windows should feel really good.