On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > > I don't think they are visible at once. There is or the message bar or > > the input buffer visible (well they have the same design so you won't > > notice. But they use the same space. Do you say you want to make that > > part higher and so make visible both at the same time? I don't Lars will > > agree with that. We always implemented it like an Emacs minibuffer and > > it handles stuff more or less the same as we do. > > Yes, I want them both entirely separate. I'd rather not repeat Emacs' > error in this regard. > > And note that Gnome will probably require this due to their UI > guys/guidelines.
While I agree with the separate implementation you suggest I don't like the waste of screenspace experienced with KDE/Gnome/Mozilla because they are afraid of having two separate widgets share the same space -- especially when the proportion of their usage tends to be statusbar > 90% and minibuffer < 10% (for some wildly enthusiastic minibuffer user). But then I'm into bad UI. Just make sure there's an interface around for we emacsers to feel at home in. Allan. (ARRae)
