Bug 258615

Summary:	Hide statusbar option.
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	Fest <fest.in>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	rockonthemoonfm
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Fest 2010-12-02 21:24:29 UTC

Version:           1.6.0 (using KDE 4.5.80) 
OS:                Linux

I'm asking option to hide statusbar.

Only use case of it is showing link adress, which is at least not critical issue (or can be replaced by pop-ups instead ?). 
And on other side statusbar taking a lot of space (what is especially critical on netbook), which can be used by rss text instead.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 rockonthemoonfm 2012-01-09 18:00:12 UTC

following a debate on plasma-devel started by Fiestas about removing status bar in KDE apps (where Kmail was also mentioned), I suggest to fully remove it, and display infos in an in-window widget as Seigo said (and probably just for errors: missing internet connection, problems in feed fetching: show a tooltip at bottom right corner).

Comment 2 Christophe Marin 2012-01-09 18:35:57 UTC

Please don't assume that everyone reads plasma-devel and post a link to the discussion.

Note that I don't think plasma-devel is the right place to discuss this. Was this subject discussed on the usability mailing-list ?

Comment 3 rockonthemoonfm 2012-01-09 18:50:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please don't assume that everyone reads plasma-devel and post a link to the
> discussion.

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2011-October/017340.html
imho KDE needs a touch of designing polish and that discussion was really going in this sense.

> 
> Note that I don't think plasma-devel is the right place to discuss this. Was
> this subject discussed on the usability mailing-list ?

absolutely oui, by Gateau. Some harsh on that subject tough..

Comment 4 Christophe Marin 2012-01-09 20:11:07 UTC

Thanks. So the result of this thread is that there's no result and that the decision should be made by people with more usability knowledge than the people answering.

The important point is that such important ui changes should first be discussed with application maintainers (specially when you don't use the apps you're talking about)

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 04:10:55 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

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