Thoughts about statusbar

[Alex Fiestas]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:54:23 PM todd rme wrote:
> 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.
> 
I'm just wondering, in which situations it is really needed? right now 
writting this email from KMail there is a statusbar showing if Spellcheck is 
on, clumns and line, is that really needed? 

Like that, there are many other examples.