On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:59:37 +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-listen@bits-fritz.de> wrote:
What You as an individual do use or don't *must not* be a criterium for UI and feature changes. Even and especially not because You are a software developer!
Hi Friedrich, this thread already became bigger than I ever intended, and I heard that the state of the statusbar is a regular flamefest. I don't want to awake any flames or add more fuel.
over users shoulders. And be assured: *Every* bloddy feature you hid anywhere in the UI has a user(base) using it. That's more valid for the "one click available" as in the status bar.
All I am going to add is: "which user prefers single-clicks for some status bar items and double-clicks on others, while some are not clickable at all?". "Which user wants to launch dialogs when clicking on apparently empty areas in the statusbar?" and finally "which user wants 2 separators between icon areas that are really empty?" "which user wants exclamation marks for default situations rather than suitably subtle icons that show modified doc status?" :-) Some things can be universally be improved, other should remain customizable. I do know that there is a reason and a proponent behind all those items.
The only proper way to have a "Sebastian Spaeth" UI of LibreOffice I see: Convince your developer collegues to build an UI framework which allows such changes without affecting other users. :o))
Ohh, but there is much of that possible already. I was able to make myself much happier with a few lines of editing of the statusbar.xml definition. I am not sure what the right approach to finding good UI is. I therefore defer those designs to others. I only know when something bothers me so much that I really want it changed :). Sebastian
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