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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't this bother people who use the mouse to click on the Icon to activate spaces? They wouldn't be able to use the mouse to click it when they are in 1, right?

Dealing with two totally different user groups here: elderly people who use computer for essential stuff (e.g. no typewriters anymore so they use computer to print) and othe r people who spend more time learning how to use things. With my parents, it's proving successful to sit them down in front of the desktop and have icons on the unhidden launcher for literally every task they will do on the computer. Having the spaces icon throws a wrench in this plan but also complicates things cause they don't understand what happens if it does get activated. 

> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:36:48 +0100
> From: gabriel.pettier@xxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Ability to remove Spaces-Icon from launcher for my parents :)
> 
> Le jeu. 15 mars 2012 00:29:24 CET, nick rundy a écrit :
> > I've been sitting my elderly parents down in front of 12.04 Beta 
> > because I plan to transition them off 10.04 onto 12.04 stable in May. 
> > I think ultimately (despite them having to learn some new ways of 
> > doing things) Unity will be easier for them to use overall. Thank you 
> > team Ubuntu for being brave to try something new and working so hard 
> > to make Unity a success!
> >
> > One problem that is cropping up is that my parents do NOT understand 
> > Spaces. Frankly, they never will. Unfortunately, I can find no way to 
> > remove the Space-Icon from the Launcher. And if/when a parent 
> > accidentally clicks the Spaces icon the desktop changes and they get 
> > confused and don't know what happened.
> >
> > Any way to remove the Space icon from the Launcher? If not, don't you 
> > think it would be a good move to add the ability to remove that icon 
> > from the Launcher for situations like this?
> >
> >
> 
> Should it diseappear automatically if both vertical and horizontal 
> viewport numbers are 1?
> 
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