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
case SWT.TOP: return new Point(0, -distance);
			case SWT.BOTTOM: return new Point(0, distance);
			case SWT.LEFT: return new Point(-distance, 0);
			case SWT.RIGHT: return new Point(distance, 0);
		}
		
		return new Point(0,0);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the point in the center of the given rectangle.
	 * 
	 * @param rect rectangle being computed
	 * @return a Point at the center of the given rectangle.
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static Point centerPoint(Rectangle rect) {
		return new Point(rect.x + rect.width / 2, rect.y + rect.height / 2);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the height or width of the given rectangle.
	 * 
	 * @param toMeasure rectangle to measure
	 * @param width returns the width if true, and the height if false
	 * @return the width or height of the given rectangle
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public static int getDimension(Rectangle toMeasure, boolean width) {
		if (width) {
			return toMeasure.width;
		} else {