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[Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:06 -0500, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
> If one uses autohide, this problem doesn't really exist because all of
> the space below that corner is also being used. However, if one uses
> the always-visible launcher, then the problem does exist. I suggest
> that, if the user is using an always-visible launcher, the launcher
> goes all the way to the top of the screen, cutting down those ~48px of
> space from the panel but also removing that ugly corner. Yes, the
> panel will be a little shorter, but it is, in my opinion, a good
> sacrifice to remove that visual "glitch". Not sure if this has been
> suggested before, but I'll suggest it again if it has.

One big argument here is what we use the important top-left corner of
the screen for. It's one of the easiest places on the screen to move the
mouse quickly; and at the moment, the "close current window" button is
there. If we lengthened the panel up to the top of the screen, the Dash
button would be there instead, which at least I use less commonly than
opening the window.

(We don't make perfect use of the other screen corners either, by the
way; bottom-left is for the trash, which is not the sort of thing that's
accessed often enough to need a corner, and bottom-right isn't used for
anything. I guess having an unbound corner is useful as Compiz allows
you to bind things to screen corners, which would require a corner
that's not already being used for other things.)

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ais523