One thing I actually genuinely do not like is the "grouping". So Firefox has two windows open? Click on the Firefox icon - now select which one you want. :-/ No. Fail. Give me a icon for *each* of them, please! I hated this when Windows did it (fortunately I can turn it off there) and so I dislike Unity doing it, too. OTOH, apps I use tend to group their sub-windows their own way: Opera's tabs, GNU screen. LibreOffice would be the exception here.
That aside, the PC in question is a Latitude XT. So yes, it is a touch-screen PC. This is the part of the reason I want to put the dock on the right (I'm right handed). Also because WindowMaker puts that sort of shit on the right and so I'm used to that.
I guess I'll keep persisting. Haven't tried KDE yet. Or XFCE on the touchscreen.
Wade.