On 23 August 2012 14:31, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > while discussing the best way to implement the word count in the Author UI, > I had an idea for the Calligra UI in general. > Flexibility is one of the key advantages of the Calligra UI. One of the few > UI parts that are currently not flexible is the status bar. That's why I > asked myself: > "Why not put the the things currently displayed in the status bar in one or > several docker(s), put these dockers at the bottom by default (or maybe > someplace else if that works better for a particular application) and remove > the standard status bar?" > This would allow to keep the current layout as default while preserving > maximum flexibility. To me, this is the logical consequence of the "Flexible > UI" paradigm of Calligra. > So, what do you think about it? Did I miss any problems/downsides?
This is good idea observed in dynamically configured apps, e.g. Firefox and generally XUL allows the plugins to inject ui bits in such places too. I plan to have view-related actions (dependent on context/plugin used) in Kexi's statusbar for example. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
