https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88367
--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> --- @Jay, Yes adding a Numlock, Caps Lock indicator are both useful statusbar additions. As is retaining the Insert/Overwrite mode indicator. Samuel's patches allowing deeper shrinkage of the status bar element labels resolved issues of bug 86018. Frankly concern about "clutter" on the statusbar is trivial. In fact, there are very few users attempting to do anything with LO on monitors less than 1024x768, and I can't remember the last time I came across an 800x600 resolution laptop or desktop display. The minimum now is probably around 1366x768 found on older laptops with outdated screens. We aren't dealing with Android/iOS based devices--running LO in a minimum screen width should not be a primary design consideration going forward to 4.5.0 Full HD resolution 1920x1080 (16:9) or 1920:1200 (16:10) monitors are the norm, with 4K and Retina HiDPI displays becoming more common, so the "clutter" you suggest of the status bar is simply not an issue for majority of users. Yet removing functions that reside appropriately on the statusbar would be. Our biggest problem with the Statusbar is that we have translatable fielded names rather than functional icons. The by language the named fields expand or shirnk to fill the statusbar. Are some less useful than others? Sure. But the space is there, and we are not considering removal or default suppression of the statusbar. The statusbar takes up screen space, so it should be populated with functional elements. That said, there are two GUI issue here: one is the resizable labeling (and requisite translation). Some additional icons with consistent placement and behavior solves most of that. Might not be able to do it for all, but certainly--Page, words, characters. The other "clutter" as you put it, comes from lack of customization of the status bar. For users working in reduced size VM, or with multiple instances of LO open, the Status bar could be made configurable allowing selection of the status indicator widgets that are rendered active. Do that as opposed to ripping them out of the statusbar. Leave the Insert/Overwrite indicator alone, it has a function--fix the GUI. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise