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List:       kdevelop-bugs
Subject:    [Bug 140810] New: accessibility: editor status row (row/col/insert
From:       Wolfram R.Sieber <Wolfram.R.Sieber () GMail ! com>
Date:       2007-01-29 4:10:21
Message-ID: 20070129051021.140810.Wolfram.R.Sieber () GMail ! com
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           Summary: accessibility: editor status row (row/col/insert status)
                    hurts neighbours-belong-together rule
           Product: kdevelop
           Version: 3.3.5
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdevelop-bugs kdevelop org
        ReportedBy: Wolfram.R.Sieber GMail com


Version:           3.3.5 (using KDE 3.5.5, Debian Package 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 (4.0))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-3-k7

Human machine interfaces usually use the neighbours-belong-together principle. \
(Sorry, I forgot the exact English name for that.) Means, things located nearby each \
other get considered as being parts of the same entity.

Editors such as kate feature a status bar next below the editor frame, to the far \
left of the frame. There, a user would expect it; having the status located there, is \
familiar.

Contrary to that, in kdevelop the status data appears in the far right bottom corner. \
Multiple inches away from the left bottom of the editor frame. -- At least, if a \
Konsole and a right sidebar are opened.

There, I found the status data only by random chance. It's far from the location one \
would expect it.

.
I see, that the tab-like appearance would break up if the status were moved to the \
bottom left corner of the editor frame, but where it currently resides doesn't look \
like a good place for me.

As an alternative approach: What about a floating (e.g. black on dark grey) status \
row *inside* the editor frame? ... Or just ignore the then-broken tab-like look, and \
put the status bar just where it would be expected -- to the bottom left of the \
editor frame?


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