Merry solstice, folks! Since we're into festive season spirit I'll take time again to express what I think is the real challenge: we have built a converged UI across phone, tablet and desktop. If you're running Unity7 (i.e. the standard desktop in 14.04) you're running code which only expresses the desktop piece of that. We're busy adding desktop capabilities to Unity8 (there is quite a bit of community activity, for example, to get the Unity8 core apps to work well on desktops in this cycle).
As a key part of convergence, we assigned some meaning to each edge of the screen. Doing so in a consistent way enables every user and every app developer to go much deeper because they know what to expect. In our case: * the left edge is all about apps and app switching * the right edge is an alt-tab and workspace switching * the top edge is for the system (notifications, settings) * the bottom edge is for the app In this world, it would be extremely difficult to even think about moving the launcher around. One MIGHT be able to toggle left-and-right edges, for example, for right-to-left languages like Arabic. But arbitrary placement of the pieces would not make sense at all. You COULD go an implement this capability in Unity7, yes. You could also choose to use Docky or one of the other excellent launchers for the desktop which exist in free software today; and you can do all of that on a fully supported Ubuntu system. Now, looking over this history of comments here, it's easy to predict that some people will say they don't care about convergence. I understand that, but I believe that in due course ALL desktop and laptop screens will have touch, and those same people will then care very much. So, since we have good free software options for movable-docks today, but we don't have good free software solutions for convergence of phone / tablet / PC, I'm doing what I believe is the right thing by funding that future. And so far, people who are participating in that community are having a good time, judging by their comments and contributions. More welcome! Again, wishing you all a happy holiday break, Mark -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668415 Title: Movement of Unity launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/668415/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
