It sure would be nice if the SharedView screen bar (at top) were a taskbar icon instead. Screen real-estate is too valuable for that big thing to "live" on my screen.
I agree 100%. AND with the bar resizing all of my windows, and rearranging all of the icons on my desktop and stuff, I would just as soon not have it causing me the aggravation. When that option is set, maybe the chat window and such can have some form of transparency so that it can be used, but not intrusive?