Dear Mark,

Can there be a 180 degree switch? Moving most of what's on the left to
the right (launcher, Ubuntu button, window controls) and vice-versa?

Ubuntu and Unity are the result of an amazing effort millions of people have 
accompanied and contributed to over all these years. My deepest respect for 
that. Unity does fit very well into the new "touch everything" paradigm, that's 
taking over devices whether we want it or not. Still, on the desktop, there is 
one thing about Unity that makes the whole thing feel awkward. It's as if it 
was designed for left-handed users. I have seen this opinion quite some times 
online lately, and I can't help to agree. You just want to flip the desktop 180 
degrees.
Menus and launchers are not that frequently accessed in between launching and 
closing applications, and switching between windows. The human (right-handed) 
brain tends to perceive information on a screen from the top left corner in a 
Z-shaped path. So that corner, from a purely practical point of view, would be 
the most useful for a system/notification tray + clock. And keeping start and 
launcher on the right would feel more natural for right-handed people because 
they wouldn't need to jerk the cursor far left to switch apps, hitting the 
laptop/keyboard while doing it.
I hope you would consider an integrated flipping solution to allow a degree of 
customization which wouldn't break the other wonderful thinks Ubuntu brings 
people.

Thank you for your continuous effort to promote Linux.

Kind regards,
Psulo Fino

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