Hehe, great minds think alike. Jolla C2 Community Phone deliveries - #6 by nephros
My other idea would be to allow operation of the phone upside-down. Then the top edge would be as usual, notch isn’t as terrible at the bottom and doesn’t conflict with any UI elements.
But of course there’s drawbacks: speaker and mike are the wrong way around, sefie camera records upside-down (does it? it could detect orientation), and the buttons are “left-handed”.
The patch “allow all orientations” (or somesuch) can be used to try this, although of course the topbar changes respecting the notch don’t go away with this patch.