Re: [Usability] Combo box in a status bar

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a usability question. An application I'm on the developer team 
> for benefits extensively from different preferences settings, so it 
> allows the user to make 'profiles' and change them on-the-fly.
>
> One issue that was raised however is that it's too tedious to go to edit 
> ▸ preferences and choose a new profile, with the suggestion of instead 
> having a combo box in the main window's statusbar that would allow 
> profile changing.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here can suggest a better method or this one is 
> fine?

Gedit has combos in the statusbar in its latest version.