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(Get the code!)
This bug has been made "don't fix" and is ignored by the Unity team. However, it has been an important discussion forum for the (often frustrated) community of users!
And so, I'd like to point everyone to a relevant change in Unity coming for Oneiric: the "BFB" in the top left corner is moving into the launcher. More on this here:
http://
This has lots of advantages in my view (no more clicking it by mistake when you are trying to click on the "File" menu of an app). But, the most important one for this "won't fix" bug is that it now makes more sense to be able to move the launcher other parts of the screen without breaking the association with the BFB. The whole shell structure could exist anywhere while staying 'unified'.
I don't know if there are plans to allow for this, but it's a move in the right direction for us.
I also want to point out that apparently Unity's "vision" is not so much a unified idea sprouting from Mark Shuttleworth's brain, but instead a product of ongoing usability research by hired 3rd party teams. This is good because it allows for evolution, but bad because it seems arbitrary. Our "won't fix" bug might end up getting fixed because some research intern point out the obvious issues that have been filling these 84 comments, not because a leader steps up and says "these guys are right."