Hi, OK, look. I don't have any real arguments besides this: most of the real screen estate should be allocated to the holy grail: source code. This is IMHO the main concept, the design objective.
Please, consider this patch (or a modified flavor) for inclusion! :) -Ilyes On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Coda Highland <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Making the status bar optional is probably not feasible as it contains >>> > the Locator (and in case of FakeVim the "command line"). >>> 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. > > It's really not that bad at all -- it's actually pretty common in > other types of applications. Web browsers often pop up a bar for the > "find" command when you invoke it that goes away when you're not > searching, for example, and in many video games you can press Enter to > pop up a console that goes away when you're done with it. Even in vim > the command line is placed over the status bar when it's in use. I can > easily see pressing : in FakeVim's command mode popping up a line edit > at the bottom of the screen, or likewise pressing Ctrl+K to pop up a > locator bar. > > /s/ Adam > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
