On Tuesday 11 October 2011 12:54:23 todd rme wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Alex Fiestas <afies...@kde.org> wrote: > > Taking a look at some apps, I've noticed that most of them have an almost > > unused statusbar (or totally not used in some cases) resulting in a big > > empty grey space. > > > > In the same way that bit a bit we're fixing the KStatusNotifeir behavior > > in > > our apps, should we fix the status bar by removing it and placing > > somewhere > > else the content (if they are really needed?) > > > > The easier thing though, and the very least we should do is hide it by > > default as some apps do. > > > > What do you think? is statusbar (as badly used right now) needed? > > What about the way rekonq does it? It just displays the information > needed when it is needed in a box in the lower-right of the window. > This could do with some better theming perhaps, but otherwise for > these situations it seems to make sense. The rekonq one is quite good as it is context sensitive, but with my KWin dev hat on I could cry when I see how they did it. For rekonq it would be much better to just show the link as a tooltip as that would be the most context sensitive way. Why do I have to understand that the link is shown on the down left corner of the window? Yes Firefox does it the same way.
For most applications I think just removing it is the right approach. E.g. if network is not working in kopete it is way better to have a proper in app warning than a small text in the statusbar saying "no network". The real issue is probably that this is an per-application change. So we would have to define a project to go through all applications, extract the useful messages, put them into in-app warnings and remove the statusbar. After we have done that we could shange the KXmlGuiWindow (or however it's called - never done a KDE application) and deactivate the statusbar by default. Cheers Martin > > -Todd > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
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