On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Maybe we should do as John has done in the Qt frontend already and > > have separate widgets to display messages and to input commands? > > Btw, I discovered today that there's a Qt "WidgetStack" (or similar) > Why don't we use this for minibuffer + status bar?
They're for widget stacks, that's why. Or to be slightly less annoying: that's only useful for when you have several widgets all in the same position, with only one visible (topmost) at a time. E.g. the prefs dialog. It's not suitable and it buys us nothing.. regards john