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Hi all!

Am Freitag, den 22.07.2011, 18:10 +0200 schrieb Astron:
Regina in reply to Christoph:
The status bar in Draw is unsuitable, because it is already so full
with the
drawing information (which I don't want to miss), that there is not
space
enough for an additional word.

I agree with this. I actually got the impression that our long term
goal would be to unclutter the status bar (this was a proposal for
GSoC). Seeing the exact position and size of the current drawing
object is imho more important than signalling that LibO is in "drawing
mode". 

Who said that the text will be added next to the already existing
information? ;-)

To be honest, there are several status changes when users are drawing
items - and that provides us a chance to use these status changes to
think about the usefulness of the given information. For example (just
ideas):
      * user just selected the drawing mode --> "drawing mode
        information"
      * user is drawing the item --> size and position information
      * user has finished drawing the item --> "drawing mode
        information"
      * user switches back to selection mode --> behavior like today

As said, just thoughts - but I'm convinced that we can unclutter the
status bar and make it more usable at the same time. At the end, we need
similar behavior for Caxcel (the Excel-fied Calc) and other mode
changes. That's what the status bar is for - usually.

Cheers,
Christoph


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