[libreoffice-design] Status Bar changes

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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Paulo José O. Amaro
Computer Science Student
Federal University of São João del-Rei
WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior
Blogger / casatwain.com

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