[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 88367] STATUSBAR: Removal of insert mode status

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88367

--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
@Jay,

Yes adding a Numlock, Caps Lock indicator are both useful statusbar additions.
As is retaining the Insert/Overwrite mode indicator.

Samuel's patches allowing deeper shrinkage of the status bar element labels
resolved issues of bug 86018. Frankly concern about "clutter" on the statusbar
is trivial. In fact, there are very few users attempting to do anything with LO
on monitors less than 1024x768, and I can't remember the last time I came
across an 800x600 resolution laptop or desktop display. The minimum now is
probably around 1366x768 found on older laptops with outdated screens. We
aren't dealing with Android/iOS based devices--running LO in a minimum screen
width should not be a primary design consideration going forward to 4.5.0

Full HD resolution 1920x1080 (16:9) or 1920:1200 (16:10) monitors are the norm,
with 4K and Retina HiDPI displays becoming more common, so the "clutter" you
suggest of the status bar is simply not an issue for majority of users.  Yet
removing functions that reside appropriately on the statusbar would be.

Our biggest problem with the Statusbar is that we have translatable fielded
names rather than functional icons.  The by language the named fields expand or
shirnk to fill the statusbar.  Are some less useful than others? Sure. But the
space is there, and we are not considering removal or default suppression of
the statusbar. The statusbar takes up screen space, so it should be populated
with functional elements.

That said, there are two GUI issue here: one is the resizable labeling (and
requisite translation). Some additional icons with consistent placement and
behavior solves most of that.  Might not be able to do it for all, but
certainly--Page, words, characters.

The other "clutter" as you put it, comes from lack of customization of the
status bar. For users working in reduced size VM, or with multiple instances of
LO open, the Status bar could be made configurable allowing selection of the
status indicator widgets that are rendered active.

Do that as opposed to ripping them out of the statusbar.  Leave the
Insert/Overwrite indicator alone, it has a function--fix the GUI.

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