John Levon wrote:
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 don't get understand. How the pop-up toolbar helps to know that this
thing exists?
I see no problem whatsoever with it being
a toolbar.
The problem is that it is handled by the session management code as a
toolbar. And I reckon this is bad. The mini-buffer should be fixed at
one place. I don't see any benefit in having the status bar and the
mini-buffer at the same time. But I am missing something probably...
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.
Indeed, you're right. I just tested it now. But nothing prevents us to
do better (IMHO) than Firefox ;-)
Abdel.
