Re: [libreoffice-design] Status Bar changes

Hi,


I like this new grouping, Paulo. It make sense.


Also I would prefer to have most of the items in the status bar turned off.
The user should decide what goes in there. I would love to see a word count
for example. This has probably been discussed before (I'm new here), so in
that case ignore it.


Rick

2011/3/12 Paulo José <pauloup@gmail.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm thinking about changing the LibreOffice Writer's Status Bar. Just a
> little bit. :-P
>
> My motivation was the feeling of confusion that actually appear sometimes,
> making me think about a new way to organize that information.
>
> I tried to capture some initial thinkings about the status bar, pointing
> its issues. I perceived we can categorize its information in Page, Document
> and Selection related:
>
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Current-libreoffice-writer-statusbar.png
>
> For more information about the options of Writer's Status Bar, see the
> LibreOffice's wiki page [1].
>
> As you can see, there's some same category's information in different
> places. An issue, by example, it's when the user wanna know the page number
> when scrolling the page, so it needs look at the left side, while scrolling
> at the right side of screen.
>
> I tried to achieve a better way to organize these informations, keeping a
> logical relationship between them. In my proposal, the Document information
> stay in the left site, the Page information on the right side and the
> Selection information stay closer to the content, in the center. Also an
> order that I tried to keep is "Edition" items before "Only-Information"
> items. This is my proposal:
>
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:New-libreoffice-writer-statusbar-v1.png
>
> I'd like to hear what you think about it. It's just one of my ideas
> concerning the Status Bar, including changing the Insert and Selection Mode
> text to icons, and evencreating a dynamic status bar, integrated with
> context toolbars.
>
> But in small steps we walk longer, does not? :-) By now, I think we could
> just reorganize the Status Bar and improve its communicability. :-)
>
> Regards,
> ~Paulo
>
> [1] - http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Status_Bar
>
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> Federal University of São João del-Rei
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