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

[C. Boemann]

On Thursday 23 August 2012 14:31:18 Thomas Pfeiffer 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?
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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I think the main problem I see is that dockers have titlebars that take up 
vertical space.

Sure it can be removed but then the user looses the configurability. We can 
then do like Amarok does, but then what dockers should have their titlebars 
hidden

Not saying it can't be solved but there are some issues with this