Re: [libreoffice-design] Status Bar changes

Hi Christoph, Rick, all

Thank you, Christoph! I'll include these buttons in the mockup.

Rick, this is probably a great idea. I personally would like it a lot!
Although, It may implicates some language problems, like "how to count"
words in different languages, or even performance problems. Imagine the
delay to count each word when you past (or delete) a long text once. Of
course, i'm speculating about it. The real problems may be different, but
I'm sure it'll require a wide work.

We could join every ideas about the Status Bar change in a wiki page to make
it easier to know the current progress. I'm purposing make the changes in
small steps (or versions), where each step could be a "section" in the page,
so the developers can follow these steps in a efficient way. I think I'll be
able to create the page tonight, but all are invited to join.

By the way, I did a HTML mockup, so will be simple to purpuse ideas and see
them "implemented". For now it's just CSS working, but I think we could
include some javascript (with jQuery) to make it interactive, eg. to create
functional menus. I can't upload it now because the FTP is blocked at
university. Someone know a easy way to upload the HTML code and change it in
a collaborative way (Like Etherpad or Google Docs was to text)? I'll try to
find a solution before upload it to wiki (that seems to be the hardest way
to work on it).

Regards
~Paulo

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2011/3/13 Rick Hansson <rickhansson@gmail.com>

> 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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