“our broader design goals”
…I thought it would be a simple matter of configuring the Launcher bar to pop up somewhere else on the screen. Like the right side. Or the bottom. This would be simple, I reasoned, because any other Linux distro I have used would let me do this.
Brian Profitt ran afoul of Ubuntu’s new “There’s only one way to do it” design philosophy when trying to move the new launcher bar in Unity to some other edge of the screen. He points to Mark Shuttleworth’s infuriatingly glib response to a user’s request that its location be configurable:
I’m afraid that won’t work with our broader design goals, so we won’t implement that. We want the launcher always close to the Ubuntu button.
Well, the thing is, we should be able to put that button somewhere else, too.
I have the same issue with Gnome Shell in Fedora 15, and Gnome has its own crew of annoying designers telling me I use my computers wrong, but I remain hopeful that some solution can be reached.
Or I can just switch to Windows. Ballmer and Gates let me put that Start menu anywhere I damn well please.
