Comment 9 for bug 262520

@Vish: How do you know anything larger than 8 is "not ideal"? On my screen I think about 15 would be the ideal maximum. But I would not go so far as to assume this is everyone's ideal.

I recently added a bookmark, bringing the number to 9, and now annoyingly I have to click twice (and precisely, clicking Places is easy since its at the top of the screen). The worst part of it is that now the Places menu only takes up 1/4 of my total vertical space. And if the Bookmarks were not collapsed, still it would take up only 1/3.

I thought at first that this ridiculous limit might be a case of this:
http://uxmyths.com/post/931925744/myth-23-choices-should-always-be-limited-to-seven

But it seems that the number 8 was instead plucked out of thin air.

I realise Gnome Shell is being replaced in 11.04, but I imagine regular gnome will still be supported officially.