Thoughts about statusbar

[todd rme]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> Taking a look at some apps, I've noticed that most of them have an almost
> unused statusbar (or totally not used in some cases) resulting in a big empty
> grey space.
>
> In the same way that bit a bit we're fixing the KStatusNotifeir behavior in
> our apps, should we fix the status bar by removing it and placing somewhere
> else the content (if they are really needed?)
>
> The easier thing though, and the very least we should do is hide it by default
> as some apps do.
>
> What do you think? is statusbar (as badly used right now) needed?

What about the way rekonq does it?  It just displays the information
needed when it is needed in a box in the lower-right of the window.
This could do with some better theming perhaps, but otherwise for
these situations it seems to make sense.

-Todd