Thoughts about statusbar

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 25 October 2011 14:14:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > And yes this is clearly Workspace and not application related. We as the
> > workspace define how an application has to look like and how it has to
> > behave.
> The statusbar is inside the application window, so I disagree this is a
> workspace issue.
My personal opinion is that the Workspace has to define how the windows have 
to behave and it is the task of the Workspace to enforce some consistancy on 
the applications if it has to be. (Compare global menu or Notify OSD at that 
comany in your mail address ;-)

As we see that the application developers fail to improve the UI (exceptions 
are there as usual - e.g. Dolphin, Gwenview or rekonq) we could even go so far 
to say that it is the responsibility of the part of our workspace experience 
which works on having a consistant UI and a clear interaction concept.

In fact with Plasma Active we are already doing a top-down approach on the app 
from the workspace. We just never did on the desktop, because we "trust" the 
application developers to do the best.

So I'm all for more power to the workspace [1], but I don't want to play UI 
expert either ;-)

Cheers
Martin

[1] http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/05/where-ends-the-workspace-
and-where-begins-the-application/
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