On Tuesday 28 August 2012 20:53:11 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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. Yes it would be possible.
But keep in mind that you cannot move docker without a title bar, so once at the bottom the user will have no way of moving it away again _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
