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

[C. Boemann]

On Wednesday 29 August 2012 11:27:55 Inge Wallin wrote:
> I think that people would mostly put stuff there anyway that is very like
> what we presentin the current status bar. So we could perhaps call the
> lower dock widget position the "status bar" and have a status bar
> configuration mode a bit like Plasma has its configuration for the bar
> (can't remember now exactly what it's called). That way it wouldn't matter
> that they couldn't move it and we would get rid of the main problem with
> dockers, namely that people tend to click on them by mistake and rip them
> out.

Yes I kind of like that.

On Wednesday 29 August 2012 11:04:30 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, C. Boemann wrote:
> > Yes it would be possible.
> > 
> > But keep in mind that you cannot move  docker without a title bar, so
> > once at the bottom the user will have no way of moving it away again
> 
> That could be solved by a button to restore the titlebar somewhere, or a
> right-click action, perhaps?

And yes that might work too.

My point was not to say it can't be done, but highlight something that needs 
to be addressed by Thomas :)