Personally I think it's a great idea - has this gone any further? Here's one good example (I think!) of a paper-cut. OSOL 2009.06 111b x86, running on an Intel system with a G31 Express graphics set.
When I use a desktop environment generally I don't like to have to precision pin-point the mouse cursor to activate menu items etc. When running the GNOME Desktop with Compiz effects disabled, I simply jam the mouse cursor at the top left or very top of the screen to access the "Applications", "Places", "System" menus, and Panel items etc. If however, I switch Visual Effects to "Normal", this behaviour changes ever so slightly...It's as if a one pixel row at the very top of the screen no longer reacts to mouse input, so I have to correct my action by positioning the mouse down a teeny bit to launch a panel item, or access the aforementioned menus. Bizarrely, things behave as per normal when Visual Effects is set to "Extra". Frankly I'd feel like a bit of a nob filing a bug report or RFE for something like this, but it sure meets the definition of "trivially fixable usability issue to me" - it's both inconsistent and annoying :) (On a related note it would be nice if a maximized Firefox window behaved in the same way vis a vis the right hand menu scroll bar for long web pages). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
