Hi,
I like this new grouping, Paulo. It make sense. Also I would prefer to have most of the items in the status bar turned off. The user should decide what goes in there. I would love to see a word count for example. This has probably been discussed before (I'm new here), so in that case ignore it. Rick 2011/3/12 Paulo José <paul...@gmail.com> > Hi everyone, > > I'm thinking about changing the LibreOffice Writer's Status Bar. Just a > little bit. :-P > > My motivation was the feeling of confusion that actually appear sometimes, > making me think about a new way to organize that information. > > I tried to capture some initial thinkings about the status bar, pointing > its issues. I perceived we can categorize its information in Page, Document > and Selection related: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Current-libreoffice-writer-statusbar.png > > For more information about the options of Writer's Status Bar, see the > LibreOffice's wiki page [1]. > > As you can see, there's some same category's information in different > places. An issue, by example, it's when the user wanna know the page number > when scrolling the page, so it needs look at the left side, while scrolling > at the right side of screen. > > I tried to achieve a better way to organize these informations, keeping a > logical relationship between them. In my proposal, the Document information > stay in the left site, the Page information on the right side and the > Selection information stay closer to the content, in the center. Also an > order that I tried to keep is "Edition" items before "Only-Information" > items. This is my proposal: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:New-libreoffice-writer-statusbar-v1.png > > I'd like to hear what you think about it. It's just one of my ideas > concerning the Status Bar, including changing the Insert and Selection Mode > text to icons, and evencreating a dynamic status bar, integrated with > context toolbars. > > But in small steps we walk longer, does not? :-) By now, I think we could > just reorganize the Status Bar and improve its communicability. :-) > > Regards, > ~Paulo > > [1] - http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Status_Bar > > -- > Paulo José O. Amaro > Computer Science Student > Federal University of São João del-Rei > WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior > Blogger / casatwain.com > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
