There are at least 2 significant benefits coming from my perspective about what Mark Shuttleworth requested for the status of this bug (Invalid): 1.- Being the product (Unity) a totally new proposal for the Linux Desktop and/or the average PC (Windows) user, requires sincere feedback in order to polish and improve it's usability: There's a huge difference between getting feedback from a confused user asking "How-To's" with questions such as, How can I set the launcher to be hidden? or How can I change it's position? rather than the user criticizing how it looks after customization.
2.- Letting this tasks to independent or alternate developers increases the feedback and the whole project gets more people involved. Example: I encourage my self to create and share a very simple tool to set the Unity-2D preferences which I posted in my blog. By reading the few comments of that post, now you can tell some users love to set their desktop as similar as possible to Unity (3D) by enabling transparency on the Dash and shadows for the panel and windows, as well as being able to set the Launcher to Never-Hide, or sometimes hidden. But there are also questions on "How to disable the Volumes to be shown in the Launcher" since they take a lot of space from the screen (When users have many devices and/or partitions, I guess) and/or the reason why they are using Unity-2D instead of Unity. These comments not only give ideas of what to include or not, but also what to change. We really have to keep in mind that making decisions of what to include in a Desktop Settings Tool is not that easy, in fact, it's probably something very hard. Cheers, -Mariano -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748739 Title: no config tool currently provided for Ubuntu Unity Plugin -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
