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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Filter Bar on Bottom?
From:       jos poortvliet <jos () mijnkamer ! nl>
Date:       2006-05-14 11:18:53
Message-ID: 200605141318.56276.jos () mijnkamer ! nl
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Op Sunday 14 mei 2006 04:10, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Saturday 13 May 2006 13:03, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> > I'm the developer of BasKet Note Pads. Since it is not a KDE member
> > application, I don't know if you can discuss such concerns. If not, can
> > you redirect me?
>
> it uses kdelibs so i don't see the problem personally
>
> > So I would want to put the filter bar on the bottom of the window and
> > hide the statusbar, that is only used to show non-interesting numbers
> > (unless for debugging, but well... it should not be the purpose of any
> > GUI item ;-)
>
> if the statusbar really doesn't show anything meaningful to the user then
> there is no need for it to be there IMHO. i think we overuse statusbars in
> kde to be honest; i'm looking at the kmail composer window and the status
> bar tells me which column and line i'm editting. do i care? no. does anyone
> care? likely not. it becomes just more clutter. seems the same is true in
> basket.
>
> as for the search line, that's a very good question. were i to take a stab
> at it, i'd suggest it depends on whether or not filtering is a primary /
> oft used feature. if it's something used all the time by users, then it
> might deserve a spot at the top. if it isn't, then it probably simply gets
> in the way visually as it de-aligns the tree and the content area and takes
> visual scanning preference (top -> bottom) over the content. so this is a
> bit of a judgement call based on how the application is used.

i think for basket, filtering is important - so it should always be there, 
guess on top. on the other hand, what konversation did with the search 
dialogue should imho be done in all KDE apps... but only for ctrl-F search 
dialogs i guess.

-- 
Disclaimer:

Alles wat ik doe denk en zeg is gebaseerd op het wereldbeeld
wat ik nu heb. Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen
van de wereld, of het beeld wat ik daarvan heb, noch voor de
daaruit voortvloeiende gedragingen van mezelf.
Alles wat ik zeg is aardig bedoeld, tenzij expliciet vermeld.

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