Re: GnomeAppBar interactive mode

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 12:44, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes:
> 
> > intrusive, and their optionality is nice (because you should always be
> > able to turn off the status bar).  I'd like to see more of them in GNOME
> 
> Why should you always be able to turn off the status bar?

Just as a courtesy to the user.  The status bar shouldn't be used to
show any critical information (or if it does, it shouldn't be the only
place it's shown), so for a lot of users it just takes up room
unnecessarily.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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