Description david marcus 2005-03-09 10:08:06 EST

The presence of a breakpoint (as indicated by the round dot icon in the left 
column strip/bar) is often obscured by additional icons such as the assist 
balloon, the yellow right arrow indicating the result of a search, etc.

This makes it very difficult to visually tell whether a breakpoint exists for 
the given line.

I would recommend a solution whereby the icons are staggered at a 45-degree 
slant from top-left to bottom-right with each icon displayed a few pixels down 
and to the right relative to the previous icon associated with the same line. 
At least this will allow a much easier visual detection of an icon.