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In December 2010, some users requested that the Unity launcher (or dock) be movable from the left to other sides of the screen, but Mark Shuttleworth stated in reply, "I'm afraid that won't work with our broader design goals, so we won't implement that. We want the launcher always close to the Ubuntu button."cite-ref-61[61] However, with Ubuntu 11.10, the Ubuntu button was moved into the launcher. A third-party plugin that moved Unity 3D's launcher to the bottom was available.cite-ref-62[62] An option to move the launcher to the bottom of the screen was officially implemented in Ubuntu 16.04.cite-ref-63[63]

As of 2010, the Unity shell interface developers use a toolkit called Nux instead of Clutter.cite-ref-64[64] Unity is a plugin of the Compiz window manager,cite-ref-ars-technica-2013-10-17-14-2[14] which Canonical states is faster than Mutter,cite-ref-65[65] the window manager for which GNOME Shell is a plugin.

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