On Thursday 23 August 2012 15:05:04 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 23.08.2012 14:53, C. Boemann wrote: > > On Thursday 23 August 2012 14:31:18 Thomas Pfeiffer 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? > >> Cheers, > >> Thomas > > > > I think the main problem I see is that dockers have titlebars that take up > > vertical space. > > > > Sure it can be removed but then the user looses the configurability. We > > can > > then do like Amarok does, but then what dockers should have their > > titlebars > > hidden > > True. I think this should not depend on the docker, but on its position. > How about hiding the title bar when the docker is placed at the bottom? > Having a title bar would probably look weird then, anyway. But if a docker > containing status info is placed somewhere else, it should have a title > just lie any other ones.
Would it be technically possible to show/hide the status bar depending on the docker's position? If so, I could think about how to ideally implement it form a usability perspective, but I don't want to waste time designing something which was not technically possible in the first place. _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
