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[Carl Simpson <cwd.simpson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Canonical has *never* maintained GNOME Panel, so the fact that it even works
*now* is entirely due to the miracle of collaboration, rather than Ubuntu's
or Canonical's specific efforts.  That'll continue to be how it all works in
the future; don't panic.  There are enough people out there looking at Shell
and Unity in utter disbelief, that GNOME Panel wont go away for a long time,
I don't think.

If you want to continue to support GNOME Panel, and make sure that a
competent GNOME Panel is shipped in Ubuntu in future, that's a separate
project that isn't part of the debate regarding how Unity should be done.
I'm not sure if there's a well formed community, yet, emerging around the
all-too-common desire to keep GNOME Panel up and running- to give you the
lame hand-off response: you might consider spearheading such an effort.

As for filing the bug…  if you're not sure, write it up with Ubuntu.  The
developers there will soon figure out if it's theirs, or something for
upstream, wherever “upstream” works out to be, for the Panel, in future.

As for configurability?  Get writing up those ideas, and push for them!
Resizable Sprinboard got in for Natty because someone who wanted it pushed
for it, and someone who agreed made it happen (Andrea Azzarone, I think).

There are some things you might not bother wasting your effort on, however,
such as, “Move the Springboard to a different screen edge.”  The word is in
on this; it stays on the left (sorry).  There are some ways in which Unity
is going to be limited.  It can't be everything to everyone.