Thoughts about statusbar

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 11 October 2011 12:54:23 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.
The rekonq one is quite good as it is context sensitive, but with my KWin dev 
hat on I could cry when I see how they did it. For rekonq it would be much 
better to just show the link as a tooltip as that would be the most context 
sensitive way. Why do I have to understand that the link is shown on the down 
left corner of the window? Yes Firefox does it the same way.

For most applications I think just removing it is the right approach. E.g. if 
network is not working in kopete it is way better to have a proper in app 
warning than a small text in the statusbar saying "no network".

The real issue is probably that this is an per-application change. So we would 
have to define a project to go through all applications, extract the useful 
messages, put them into in-app warnings and remove the statusbar.

After we have done that we could shange the KXmlGuiWindow (or however it's 
called - never done a KDE application) and deactivate the statusbar by 
default.

Cheers
Martin
> 
> -Todd
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