Comment 74 for bug 668415

Ok, hoping that some are still reading answers to this bug I will drop a few lines here:

Two days ago I started a discussion on the Power User mailinglist (<email address hidden>). I hope that together we can come up with some solutions to the problem that Ubuntu Unity lacks anything like configurability. I want Unity to be more configurable and I want Canonical to listen to the users if they come up with such an issue.

Concerning, for instance, bug 733349, we got a user who wrote a patch which should -- in my opinion -- be integrated into Ubuntu by default. If it is against their design decision then ok: but one can still keep the default settings of the system to work according to their design decisions and on the other hand one can try to offer options to configure the system easily. This both can be done.

On the Power User List I am trying to convince the people that we need a trimmed down version of Ubuntu Tweak (or something like that) which will be integrated into the default installation as a part of the Gnome Control Panel. Thus one can integrate those options to configure Unity, which are currently found in CCSM, into the default installation (and one can thus include them in the Gnome Control Panel). In anyway I cannot understand why these options are only available via CCSM. The tool easily breaks Unity and additionally it makes no sense to offer options, which decide if the launcher "dodges windows" or "stays visible" all the time are only accessible by installing additional software.

So please join the discussion there. It seems that the larges part of the members of that list are on the side of those who want to make Unity more configurable. But the more voices the better. I want a real discussion and I hope we can thus convince the Unity developers to listen more to the users.