On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:03 PM, André Pönitz <[email protected]> wrote: > For quite a few tasks the progress bars are the only indicators that > something happens. [snip] > As I said, I don't think the status bar can be removed without > considerable loss of functionality. [snip] >> Thus the question is: are progress notifications mandatory (read not >> eligible for elision, ever)? > > I would think so, or at least only if the user explicitly selected > some "Give me all the pain you can and I mean it!" option. Eh. Alright. Point taken. Not so superfluous. Damn.
> Maybe divert your attention to the editor 'header' bars, they > are of similar height and at least from my point of view less > crucial. Or maybe remove the editor scrollbars. I thought, even in the midst of my amputation spree, there was much, too much, functionality up there to consider. Personal bias apparently: i never use the status bar but occasionally click headers. Now that you make me think of it, i wouldn't mourn the loss of at least horizontal scroll bars either. >> Would you settle for those locator & command line to only appear, down >> there where the status bar should be, when invoked? > > I think this would create more problems then is actually solved, > but I'd certainly would look how it feels if the option was there. > But really, I have a hard time to imagine that the result will be usable. Ah. I'm certainly a bit naive. Still, now that it's clear progress notifications won't go without a fight, and considering they're transient, much like the need for vi/locator input, what's your take on a "floating notification box" that would superpose on the code editor somewhere in a corner, when needed, where we'd stuff all that? Silly? No go? Maybe? _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
