[Fitts’s law] application icons have a 1 pixel wide, non-clickable margin

Bug #568732 reported by Jan
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Bug Description

This happens for both Dockbar and DockbarX, using latest Ubuntu Lucid (though I think it does not matter).

There is a 1 pixel wide, non-clickable margin between the edge of the screen and the application icons. This means that you have to stop the cursor before you reach the edge or move a bit back if you’ve reached it.

This is a classic and annoying interface design mistake, Fitts’s law applies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law

Window-picker-applet does this fine, no margin.

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Matias Särs (msevens) wrote :

Marked as duplicate. I thought this was fixed. Do you use last release or code from bzr?

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