Created attachment 115472 [details] Screenshot and mockup for "page number" toolbar item By default, the page bar is shown under the view area. Looks intuitive, but has much unused area, and wastes vertical space. (Many cheap laptops still ship with 1366x768 displays...) Maybe it's be better to use the main toolbar item "page number" instead. To save horizontal space in the main toolbar, the arrows to the left and right could be replaced by showing the usual spin box arrows. (The text box already behaves like a spin box, you can scroll it with the mouse wheel.) (Evince does it similar by putting the page number widget to the window title bar.)
I rather like this idea.
I rather don't
I think the argument for saving vertical space makes sense, and from a design standpoint, it does feel a bit odd and wasteful to have a status bar on the bottom of the content area that's 75+% empty.
Having it available but non-default is okay for me. To make the discussion a bit more complicated, though: I have always wanted to to have the page number widget in the *menu bar*. In my setting the toolbar is completely disabled, but there is plenty of free space in the menu bar. :-)
You can only add menu items to the menu bar, no widgets. It's a Qt limitation.
I know, that's why I never filed this myself.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > I think the argument for saving vertical space makes sense, and from a > design standpoint, it does feel a bit odd and wasteful to have a status bar > on the bottom of the content area that's 75+% empty. FWIW the page number it's not the only thing what the bar is used for, it's also to show the page size (when not all pages have the same size)
My original suggestion was not implemented (save horizontal space by using spin box arrows), but in overall this is implemented now.
I'd be fine using a spinbox here if the arrows actually got bigger. :) See https://phabricator.kde.org/T9460