Subject: Re: AbiWord Interface Review
From: Nils Barth (nils_barth@post.harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 13:54:02 CDT
On 2001-08-09-19:19, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On 09 Aug 2001 19:00:23 +0100, Alan wrote:
> > >.6: On GNOME, you can actually turn off/remove the status bar;
> > its an outstanding BUG
>
> I don't understand. As a GNOME application, AbiWord should respect
> generic gnome settings, if they say: remove the XXX bar, it's because
> the user doesn't want it at all.
>
> It currently doesn't seem to have a checkbox for doing that, but why
> would removing the statusbar be an outstanding bug?
I'm interpreting `BUG' here to mean:
the fact that you can't turn it off in windows is a known bug
> > > this should be implemented on Windows.
> > > If this is not possible/practical on Windows, then the option
> > > should be removed.
>
> If this is refering to the ability of removing the status bar, then I
> disagree. If windows does not provide the facility to do it, too bad.
> Windows doesn't support signals for automatic save on crash either,
> should we ditch that unix only feature? I think not...
>
> If it was misquoted, then disregard the last paragraph, since I'm not
> sure what it meant.
Sorry about that (if it caused you confusion, it probably causes
others confusion and was poorly written):
what I mean was, if a particular feature is unimplementable on
windows, then it should be removed ON WINDOWS, but included where it
can be implemented.
That is, if you cannot turn of the status bar on windows, then there
should not be an option to do so (on windows).
I agree this is a cool feature and we should implement it where possible.
-- -pookie
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