This is still here in Feisty's compiz. The top right (where the quit button is) still activates scale. Reopening.
** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Unconfirmed -- compiz should not default to using screen corners https://launchpad.net/bugs/63346 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs