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

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 31 August 2012 10:18:26 Arjen Hiemstra wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2012 09:32:04 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2012 Aug, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > I'm starting to think that a general "layout configuration mode" switch
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> like in
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> > > Amarok may be useful for Calligra in general (however it should be less
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> hidden
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> > > then in Amarok, I guess). I don't think users want to move dockers so
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> often that
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> > > clicking a button to switch between the modes before and afterward
> > > would
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> be too
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> > > much of a burden. In the layout configuration mode, any docker could be
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> dragged
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> > > from any point (not just the title bars). In the normal mode, no docker
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> could be
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> > > dragged anymore.
> > > Do you guys happen to know how often users rearrange their dockers? If
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> they
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> > > don't do it all the time, a mode switch would probably be useful, since
> > > it increases consistency and prevents accidental moving.
> > 
> > (There's one occasion where I change the layout of the dockers about a
> > bit,
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> and that's the tool option docker which sometimes needs to be higher and
> sometimes can be less high.)
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> Presumably that only changes size, which would still be possible since it
> is impossible to lock sizes because QDockLayout or whatever the class was
> called is a private class and in addition does not provide that option.
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> In regards to hiding titlebars: One thing to consider is that several docks
> use the titlebar also as the title for the dock, which means that hiding
> the titlebar would mean you lose information in the GUI. So hiding
> titlebars should probably be done per-docker.
> 
I don't think we in general would be hiding the title bar, only making it un-
draggable

Only for dockers in the bottom position we remove the title bar when locked