[Qt-creator] Please change the postion of the build status indicator

Samuel Stirtzel s.stirtzel at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 13 14:35:01 CET 2015


2015-11-13 13:38 GMT+01:00 Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM, NIkolai Marchenko
> <enmarantispam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A while ago build status indicator was moved from the left side to the lower
>> right corner.
>> Where it is now, it is, more often than not, hidden behind notifications
>> from messaging applications and it is imposible to see build status and if
>> there are errors without either reading aforementioned indications or
>> skipping them, which is severely inconvenient.
>>
>> At least for me, this corner is constantly overlayed by skype + slack +
>> telegram which makes for some frustrating builds.
>
> Obvious work-arounds of course include moving the panel (most UIs
> support that) or making the Qt Creator window smaller.
>
> Where would you suggest to move the progress bar to? We need a spot
> wider than the few pixels in the mode bar, easily visible at all
> times, and we of course do not want to reduce the space dedicated to
> displaying the source code.

Hi Tobias,

would it be possible to display the progress bar in the projects view
as background of the projects?

Crudely painted example:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-m3uk1yDB-cmVlbVV5VlpyQTA/view?usp=sharing


-- 
Regards
Samuel



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