Hello im taking all this from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Writer_Status_Bar_Remaking
*For writer* https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/1/1e/New-libreoffice-writer-statusbar-v1.png what is the digital signature. why do we have the document modification. why not put it in the title bar with a " * " like most programs do now days. insert/selection mode... is there any other mode that you could be in under these sections? my insertion mode is set to insert and the selection mode is set to select... do we really need this section in the status bar at all? if it was just the mode section it would make seance because you could also be in insert mode, selection mode, view mode, possibly some other mode. Language... why do we need to tell people what language they are in. there has never been a moment in my life where I had forgotten what language I speak and read. i guess this could be useful for people who speak different languages, but then again it does not take that long to recognize that the words on the screen are not English. when I see Spanish, German, or Swedish I do not wander if it is English. now I would not see the difference between German and Swedish, but I could see that it is definitely not English. so why is it even there? page style is useful now. but if we implement Mirek's UI the user will know what style they are using at the time because it seas it in the tool bar. so if that point comes then will we still need to tell users what style they are using in the status bar. this just leaves page view, zoom/slider, page number, and section. I never change the page view but we get a lot of emails about it so I don't know whether or not to keep it. I say scrap it and put it under the view menu. zoom/slider is fine. page number and section should be side by side. the only thing that people are always complaining about is that there is not word count. I like in Mirek's UI you can click on the page/word count and a popup shows you a lot of different stats about the document (e.g. pages, paragraphs, lines, words, characters with/with out spaces, images, tables, charts, OLE objects[I would like pages without pictures/tables/ole objects, and sections]). *For draw/impress* https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/3/33/Current_LO_draw_impress_status_bar.png object description. is this a description like "shape" or "line". if so do we need this. pointer/object position/dimensions is a must have. document modification/digital signature see above. page/slide number. see above slide design is like the style. do we need it? *For Calc* https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/9/9c/Current_LO_calc_status_bar.png sheet number, Yes. page style, insert mode, selection mode, document modification, digital signature see above. Standard formula, Time/Date, Error warning I guess could be useful. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
