On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:58 PM, ext Ilyes Gouta wrote: > 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.
Yes. And the second holy grail is: Usability. Under discussion is what "most" is supposed to mean in "most of the screen real estate" :) . One could argue that, if you hide the sidebar (the one with the project tree/ open documents etc) you already have most of your screen real estate dedicated to the source code. ++ Eike > 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 -- Eike Ziller Software Engineer Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks Nokia gate5 GmbH Firmensitz: Invalidenstr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin: HRB 106443 B Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 812 845 193 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Halbherr, Karim Tähtivuori _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
