On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:29:54PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:30:41AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > >>>Having the minibuffer as tollbar is ugly and eats screen real estate for > >>>no good reason. Should be merged with the status line. > >>I agree, but having a editable status line is kind of peculiar. > > > >Any decent editor seem to have it. In fact, even Firefox puts its > >'search' line edit there nowadays - which is very convenient compared > >to the bulky search dialogs in other applications. > > Agreed. Displaying the mini-buffer over the status bar _is_ the > solution. This is _not_ a toolbar.
Having it was part of the status bar was horrible; it was actually impossible to know it existed. I see no problem whatsoever with it being a toolbar. > I even think we should mimics Firefox with it's find as you type edit > box in the status bar. We should but /not in the status bar/. Firefox /does not/ do this, the find popup is essentially a toolbar. regards john
