Am I the only one finding the current status bar pretty much useless? About the only thing I actually use there, is the zoom slidebar (and I wouldn't use that if I were able to have a single "set 'optimal' zoom button in my toolbar which doesn't seem possible). - What annoys me most is the "document modified indicator". If it is unmodified, I see some *empty* separators in the status bar (why do we show empty separators? these should GO GO GO away) and the mouse tooltip over the *empty* separator says "this document has not been modified". When I type, I get a document with an exclamation mark, and the tooltip changes to "this document has been modified". a) This is the standard state of my documents (see, I tend to modify docs in a editor, DOH), and that exclamation mark purports some sense of urgency and failure. b) We warn when closing a modified doc anyway, so there is no need to always warn me and use up precious space. I propose to just do away with it. - I have to single-click on the INSRT and STD->EXT->ADD->BLK and language selection thingies, but to double-click on the Page 1/1 and "Default" for something to happen. I just found out by coincidence today that I can launch some action for the latter. - Despite being a heavy writer user, I have no clue what EXT/ADD/BLK mean, or what they are being used for (so I never use it). They have no tooltip whatsoever to give me a clue either. The toolbar help button unfortunately launches the generic help, rather then the more useful "what's this". In a "what's this" mode, I do see a tooltip help (why not always????), saying this is about the selection mode. What the selection mode EXTEND, ADD, or BLOCK are, I have still no clue about. Perhaps a right-click on that thing could offer to open a more elaborate help page? (keep the tooltip always in any case). And more fundamentally, do people really change the selection style in their documents to something else? Ever? Does this really require a statusbar item? Help text: Anyway after much search I found the entry in the help page that refers to that feature. I only had to "what's this" the item, to get to know about "Selection Mode" and search the help until it discovered the "selection modes in text" item. It has very useful help. BLK means: "A block of text can be selected.". /me slaps heads. How could I not know!!1! (err, can't I select a block of text with the STD as well? How dot they differ? But that's a topic for another day :). - Randomly trying out things and clicking on an empty area in the status bar, brought up a dialog window titled "Fields" which offered me to insert the "Author"->"Name", if I get it right (playing a bit dumb here). It also has a checkbox for "Fixed content" (who doesn't want to fix there content, but that is also for another day). Anyway, clicking (actually double-clicking required this time) on an *empty* area should not open mysterious dialog boxes. Where in the code is that collection of mysteries being placed on the statusbar and should I file bugs to put this rant into :-)? Sebastian
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