Re: [Usability] Combo box in a status bar

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 12 Mar 2009, at 21:35, Vadim Peretokin wrote:

> 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.

As a matter of interest, why the status bar, rather than the toolbar?   
It's not necessarily wrong to put it in the status bar, but the  
toolbar seems like a more obvious first choice.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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