On 27/05/10 21:51, Scott E. Armitage wrote: > I like them in general, but I have some reservations. > > 1. They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very "tight", as Mark put > it). I already find many of the controls on those screenshots to > be quite large, and everything starts adding up to eat up our > screen space. >
+1. The Hint Bar (as MPT has started calling it in the draft spec for Windicators) should be as tight as possible. > 1. Do we need them to be shaded? Status bars will be displaying on > screens that are relatively busy already; Chrome's status bar > overlays are a solid colour with no frills. > No, we explicitly do not want them shaded. They are PART OF the app, not an overlay like Notify-OSD. > 1. Do we need the icon? What purpose does it serve? Is there some > other way we can provide this functionality without adding them > to the status bars? > I think apps should be free to put icons in the hint bar if they want, but the guidance should be not to use that unless a very strong case for it can be made, as it will be highly transient. > 1. Could we see some mockups with the status bar displaying outside > the window border? I have run into this situation in Chrome on > OS X and Windows before under certain circumstances, and frankly > I prefer it to in-window overlays. Of course if the window is > near or at the bottom of the screen, we would move the overlay > up into the window as required. > Interesting idea. Hard to achieve without window-manager support, though, and I think this is something I'd prefer to keep tight to the window itself. Mark
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