Comment 15 for bug 996604

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-05-18:

"I just lowered the importance because it means most users will not be affected by the issue, only few technical users go out of their way to go and change such options"

As others have already stated, this is simply false. Now that you know it, will you please return the status of this bug to High? Please?

The launcher replaces the taskbar by using Spread. Newbies don't get multiple workspaces (especially when Unity decides to put apps on them "automatically"), hence we, Ubuntu evangelists, disable them so newbies don't flee back to Windows. If Spread is disabled when we, evangelists, make it easier for new users to stay on Ubuntu, what do you expect us to tell them? Learn to use workspaces and shut up?

Thanks for your understanding.

Back to 5.10 for all my users while this is being fixed.