On 23.08.2012 14:40, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
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.
Well technically it wouldn't be a statusbar anymore, then ;) But if you can
inject stuff into a standard statusbar, you can shot it in a statusbar docker as
well, correct?
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