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Hi,


I like this new grouping, Paulo. It make sense.


Also I would prefer to have most of the items in the status bar turned off.
The user should decide what goes in there. I would love to see a word count
for example. This has probably been discussed before (I'm new here), so in
that case ignore it.


Rick

2011/3/12 Paulo José <pauloup@gmail.com>

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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