I didn't like the dodge feature before because it was ... "dodgy"
I did want it to autohide because I don't have a lot of screen real estate to loose (14" at 1024x768 max).
So I was happy to find in 12.04 the ability to set the sensitivity for the launcher as well as the size of the icons. I made the icons almost as small as they could go, and have been tweaking with the sensitivity to bring the launcher up.
I try not to use the Dash because it takes 1-2 seconds to come up each time, and I don't have a Super key on my laptop's keyboard to bring it up without throwing my mouse cursor against the left edge.
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