Comment 29 for bug 1165420

Indeed, HUD management and communication has been quite poor for some time.

"When a design is complete, we'll add a work item in a blueprint to add the feature." Sounds a lot like "We're not ignoring you, we're just not going to pay attention to you right now." Perhaps that's why this bug was assigned to someone who, according to their own web page, prefers Yellow Dog Linux and Gnome.

(Don't misunderstand, this is not intended as an attack on Mr. Gould, about which I know very little. I'm simply voicing the general feeling that the community and their opinions and preferences are being neglected in favor of Canonical's grandiose designs for creating an OS experience more like those of Ubuntu's commercial competitors.)