Re: [libreoffice-design] questions about the status bar

Le 25/04/2012 18:02, Alberto Delgado a écrit :
> Digital signature: Useless for most users, i think we should hide it
> somewhere.

In the organization where I work, we have individual smartcards for id 
purposes, with which we can (and we do) sign documents. It is very handy 
to have this information visible somewhere. I'd *really* like the 
information to remain visible. The status bar seems the best place, 
unless some other idea comes.

> Document modification: Someone suggested to put an asterisk
> on the title like other programs, i think the same thing.

+1

> Insertion / selection modes: I played around with them for a while
> and they are generally useless, you can do all of that with basic
> keyboard shortcuts. Also, most users have no idea of the meaning
> of the weird abbreviations in the bottom. I say we remove it.
>
> Page: Maybe you can use this... somehow, i'd say we take
> it out too.

(page) Style information is always useful to have. This allows to not 
have to click on the Style and Formatting bar, page category button, 
just to know the current page style. Please keep it.

> Visualization mode: if it was a selector it'd be ok... in the view
> menu, or the toolbar. But a simple indicator is quite useless
> since all you have to do to know what mode you are on is look
> at the screen.
>
>
> In Calc:
> Sheet: The sheet selection is right above it, no rel need for
> "sheet x of x"

Have you ever had dozens of sheets? I'm sure you couldn't see all of 
them at once.

> Sum: I think this shows the value of the selected rectangle,
> which you can see inside the rectangle, no need for it either.

You can change the function applied to the current selection (sum by 
default): just right click on the status bar. Very useful, too. So, I'd 
ask to keep that.

> In Impress:
> Position and size: How could you use that? These things are
> usually done by eye, most people don't use it, i think it should
> go too.

The mouse is evil :)
Many people use the dialogs to change that. Having the information 
*before* calling the dialog is useful.

> Template: No one ever bothers on checking this out, you usually
> choose the template you like without ever caring about it's name.

The person looking at the presentation is not always the creator. There, 
I can see the template chosen by the author, then decide to change to 
something else.

--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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