<p>I also, honestly, do not understand why either GNOME 2 or Ubuntu GNOME 3 have two taskbars. When I say I like GNOME 3, what I mean is I like GNOME 3 with the "dash-to-panel" extension. But dash-to-panel doesn't support laptop touchpads (??!?) and GNOME keeps breaking it every few months, because GNOME breaks all the extensions every few months.</p><p>Cinnamon looks and acts like Dash-To-Panel out of the box (albeit a little grodier), so maybe it's just what I wind up using.</p>