On 23 August 2012 14:45, Thomas Pfeiffer <colo...@autistici.org> wrote: > On 23.08.2012 14:40, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> >> On 23 August 2012 14:31, Thomas Pfeiffer <colo...@autistici.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> while discussing the best way to implement the word count in the Author >>> UI, >>> I had an idea for the Calligra UI in general. >>> Flexibility is one of the key advantages of the Calligra UI. One of the >>> few >>> UI parts that are currently not flexible is the status bar. That's why I >>> asked myself: >>> "Why not put the the things currently displayed in the status bar in one >>> or >>> several docker(s), put these dockers at the bottom by default (or maybe >>> someplace else if that works better for a particular application) and >>> remove >>> the standard status bar?" >>> This would allow to keep the current layout as default while preserving >>> maximum flexibility. To me, this is the logical consequence of the >>> "Flexible >>> UI" paradigm of Calligra. >>> So, what do you think about it? Did I miss any problems/downsides? >> >> >> This is good idea observed in dynamically configured apps, e.g. >> Firefox and generally XUL allows the plugins to inject ui bits in such >> places too. >> I plan to have view-related actions (dependent on context/plugin used) >> in Kexi's statusbar for example. > > > Well technically it wouldn't be a statusbar anymore, then ;) But if you can > inject stuff into a standard statusbar, you can shot it in a statusbar > docker as well, correct?
Correct. And we know that too much uncontrolled flexibility could result e.g.: - in what we've seen in KDE 3 toolbars: buttons that cannot fit on screen horizontally, and thus display annoying arrow button on the very right hand, - in misaligned UI elements (sometimes a problem with nested QWidgets/QGroupBoxes/QLayouts). As usual it would be ideal to forget technical limitations and make sure with the UI and interaction is superb and by default; and take enough care so the user cannot 'break' the UI's usability by just drag & dropping. PS: Example of adaptability when an UI element is dragged onto a limited area is plasmoid - when dragged onto panel it changes its geometry and sometimes even the way how the content is presented. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
