When I upgraded to Natty, I was impressed at how icons I'd previously
added to my GNOME panel, and two shortcuts to third-party applications
on my desktop, were automatically added to the launcher.

However, this means that there are several icons on the launcher for
applications I seldom use, and the launcher list is rather full. I'd
think the three buttons for LibreOffice applications would be better
replaced with a single button for the general LibreOffice launcher, at
least for me.

I quickly found out (by accident) that the launcher buttons can be moved
around, and it looks like it's easy enough to add and remove
applications from the launcher. However, from many past experiences with
munging GUI settings, I always look for a way to back up settings before
I mess with them, or at the very least, I look for some way to reset
everything to defaults. Looking for such a thing led me to this bug
report.

I've long felt that while users -- even experienced users -- don't need
or generally want to have all the obscure settings for an application
right up front, it's easy enough to hide the fiddly bits behind an
"Advanced Settings" button, and have a text configuration file, with
comments, that can be edited by experienced users, and can be edited
enterprise-wide by a sysadmin with a little shell scripting. It just
seems at odds with the general design philosophy of Linux to remove
configuration options entirely.

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Title:
  no config tool currently provided for Ubuntu Unity Plugin

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