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

[Timothée Giet]

> > Do you guys happen to know how often users rearrange their dockers?

Yes, since we have workspace selection, I use to rearrange dockers and save
different worspaces at initial configuration (one for painting and one for
shape editing),
then when it's done I only switch workspace (well except when there is a
new docker to test, or something unusual like that).


2012/8/31 Arjen Hiemstra <djfreestyler at gmail.com>

> 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
> like in
> > > Amarok may be useful for Calligra in general (however it should be less
> hidden
> > > then in Amarok, I guess). I don't think users want to move dockers so
> often that
> > > clicking a button to switch between the modes before and afterward
> would
> be too
> > > much of a burden. In the layout configuration mode, any docker could be
> dragged
> > > from any point (not just the title bars). In the normal mode, no docker
> could be
> > > dragged anymore.
> > > Do you guys happen to know how often users rearrange their dockers? If
> they
> > > 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,
> and that's the tool option docker which sometimes needs to be higher and
> sometimes can be less high.)
> >
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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