Comment 8 for bug 537115

oh I see !
I thought this was a gnome-panel, but this is the dock with a x1 zoom and small icons, right ? ^_^
ok so the labels are actually part of the dock, so even when you are out of the icon from few pixels, you are still inside the dock. Ths is because when you have sub-docks, they must touch the main dock (otherwise you would leave the dock before entering the sub-dock). And since the label shouldn't overlap the sub-dock, automatically we have :
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. dock
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. label
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sub-dock or nothing