I used this for 5 minutes a while ago, realized you couldn't get rid of that odious sidebar and wrote it off permanently. Why on earth designers would prevent users from reconfiguring their screen is beyond me. Even if they fixed it, you still have to wonder about their overall judgement.
Shuttleworth once stated that they are removing configuration options on purpose in order to decrease the total number of exsiting different configurations, to build a configuration brand. The logic is that every time 2 users make 2 different settings, it is harder for them to talk and to learn from each other, so removing options artificially levels the field and eases information exchange.
Yes, even more annoying is that the sidebar can autohide, like when you open a full-screen window. They just disable that ability otherwise and provide no way to enable it. I'm not a Mac user, but I was under the impression you could even hide the dock in OS X?
It's autohiding for me, and I don't think I did anything to it. Though, it might just be a bug, I've run into a handful of near showstoppers in the last few days.
edit: Though, now that I think about it, when I first installed, I got the sidebar not autohiding with fullscreen apps, so that it blocked the left inch of whatever was up. Annoying as hell.
Totally agree. I switched to Linux Mint after that last release and have no interest in ever going back, even if they fix all of the many issues with Unity. I lost so much time on that last "upgrade" that I will never trust Canonical's judgment again.
