Re: [Evolution-hackers] Status bar

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> > I see how it's not a must (since Evolution::Component::createControl can
> > return any Bonobo::Control as the status bar), but I'm working on the Mail
> > component so not using EActivityHandler is not an option.
> > Would you accept a patch for EActivityHandler to create a new
> > e_activity_handler_show_message() method?
>
> What are you trying to do exactly?
He's trying to make mouse over url's show the url in the status bar, so yeah its a valid thing to ask about :)

> Problem is, I am not sure how the message would interact with the other
> tasks.  For examploe, when do you make it go away?  After a timeout? 
> After the user clicks something?  It might be hard to get the behavior
> right.

In this case it goes away as soon as your mouse moves off, so that part isn't difficult.  I think other automatic/transient things would never use it.

We could possibly:

1. hide the other widgets and just use an eclippedlabel while this status is around
2. dedicate a certain space for the status and not use it for the transient ones, but that would probably not be very wide