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
* 
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	private Geometry() {
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the square of the distance between two points. 
	 * <p>This is preferred over the real distance when searching
	 * for the closest point, since it avoids square roots.</p>
	 * 
	 * @param p1 first endpoint
	 * @param p2 second endpoint
	 * @return the square of the distance between the two points
	 * 
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static int distanceSquared(Point p1, Point p2) {
		int term1 = p1.x - p2.x;
		int term2 = p1.y - p2.y;
		return term1 * term1 + term2 * term2;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the magnitude of the given 2d vector (represented as a Point)
	 *  
	 * @param p point representing the 2d vector whose magnitude is being computed
	 * @return the magnitude of the given 2d vector
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static double magnitude(Point p) {
		return Math.sqrt(magnitudeSquared(p));