UI idea: Turn the status bar into a docker (or several dockers)

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 23 August 2012 14:31, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> while discussing the best way to implement the word count in the Author UI,
> I had an idea for the Calligra UI in general.
> Flexibility is one of the key advantages of the Calligra UI. One of the few
> UI parts that are currently not flexible is the status bar. That's why I
> asked myself:
> "Why not put the the things currently displayed in the status bar in one or
> several docker(s), put these dockers at the bottom by default (or maybe
> someplace else if that works better for a particular application) and remove
> the standard status bar?"
> This would allow to keep the current layout as default while preserving
> maximum flexibility. To me, this is the logical consequence of the "Flexible
> UI" paradigm of Calligra.
> So, what do you think about it? Did I miss any problems/downsides?

This is good idea observed in dynamically configured apps, e.g.
Firefox and generally XUL allows the plugins to inject ui bits in such
places too.
I plan to have view-related actions (dependent on context/plugin used)
in Kexi's statusbar for example.

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