@mark
It's also worth noting that some of the facts described at some point
within this ticket have actually been addressed by yourselves: As of the
current 11.10, I am able to get the launcher bar at the left-edge of the
left-most screen, rather than in the middle of my combined display, by
using the monitor control panel [caveat: I have made no effort to
distinguish this from using the left edge of the secondary display vs
the left edge of the left-most monitor, or how it would cope with
vertically-stacked monitors].
However you had previously stated 3 reasons for wanting a fixed-location
launcher bar:
1. Productizable consistency/supportability (move the mouse to the launcher bar
on the left of the screen);
2. Elimination of an option.
3. Aesthetic of conformity with the location of the Unity/Ubuntu button,
1 and 2 combine somewhat, and you used notebooks / tablets as a 3rd-
party consumer case for offering a fix-format display, with hardware-
button alignment.
#1 would be at odds with any vendor who wants to use a different display
form factor: my HTC Trophy, for example, the bar would take 1/3rd of the
display if presented vertically vs 1/6th of the display presented
horizontally.
#1 is also out of touch with vendor needs. If you want to ship to RTL
countries, they last thing you need is the most fundamental component of
your UI being so blatantly LTR-centric. Duh.
#2 is at odds with the addition of the auto-hide option, which is often
suggested as a compromise to the relocation option ("just turn on auto-
hide").
#3 no-longer applies, and only applies in perfect cases: if you have a
non-conformant display configuration, the status bar along the top of
the screen may not even be present on the same display or to the same
extents as the launcher bar.
It strikes me that the problem here is that many of us - perhaps we're
old farts too set in our ways, perhaps we're grognards or power users -
but many of us like our desktops to be desktopy, while Canonical is
aiming to unify the Desktop and Netbook spins, to the ends of making
Ubuntu as a whole more accessible. But wouldn't you be better served by
a simpler shift: Migrating "Ubuntu" to "Ubuntu Advanced Desktop" and
"Ubuntu Netbook" into the default "Ubuntu" spin?
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