Bug 22563 [Perspectives] View layout is tricky at edges
I've just had to "redo" a perspective the way I want it (for reasonable reasons) and I've run into the same problem I always have. I wish to have the search/console/tasks bar along the whole bottom width of Eclipse. I should (I think) be able to do this by dragging a view over the status bar and getting an "up" arrow to say I want it to be above the status bar. Unfortunately, I can't do that - I have to put everything vertically so that *everything* is the full width, get the tasks/console/search in the right place and then reorganise the rest. Have I missed something, or is this genuinely missing functionality? (The same goes for the top, left and right as well - getting anything that takes up a whole side is basically a pain.)
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/util/Geometry.java
* @param rect rectangle to modify
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static void normalize(Rectangle rect) {
		if (rect.width < 0) {
			rect.width = -rect.width;
			rect.x -= rect.width;
		}
		
		if (rect.height < 0) {
			rect.height = -rect.height;
			rect.y -= rect.height;
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Converts the given rectangle from the local coordinate system of the given object
	 * into display coordinates.
	 * 
	 * @param coordinateSystem local coordinate system being converted from
	 * @param toConvert rectangle to convert
	 * @return a rectangle in display coordinates
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static Rectangle toDisplay(Control coordinateSystem, Rectangle toConvert) {
		Point start = coordinateSystem.toDisplay(toConvert.x, toConvert.y);
		return new Rectangle(start.x, start.y, toConvert.width, toConvert.height);
	}
	
}