On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's monotonically decreasing. > The surface for displaying code decreased by exactly 2 pixels in horizontal > direction since 1.0.0. > > We added Design mode and the target selector button in the left side bar. > Were there other distractions added for editing code? Again, i'm not arguing that isn't a minor growth, i'm questioning the rationale for that permanent allocation of precious display surface.
To me, that partitioning isn't adequate to begin with. That objectively it isn't growing much is of no comfort. > For Locator I'd consider a "floating" input thingy in a "statusbar-less > state" ok. Other IDE's do something similar, and we had discussions about > floating Locator before, but settled for a permanently-visible way, to make > it a bit more visible to the user, and that should still be the standard. > > For progress indicators perhaps. Could be appearing in the lower left corner. Ok. > Auto-expanding status bar, left bar and menu bar if in "fullscreen state" > could possibly work, though I'm a bit sceptical since the areas where they > would expand sound problematic, and in the end maybe even more annoying than > helpful. I also happen to hate auto-expanding things, if only because any animation of any sort becomes extremely tiresome past the first few hundred occurrences. _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
