If your eyes are on the toolbar at the top, the status bar is not humanly readable, and changes in the text that it shows are pretty subtle. Clearly enough that over a span of many years, I've never seen it change.
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-------Original Message------- From: Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> To: Daniel Beardsmore <public@...3329...> Cc: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Notification popup on inapplicable command Sent: 29 Jan '16 16:39
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Daniel Beardsmore <public@...3329...> wrote:
Ideally, all menu items and toolbar buttons would be dynamic, i.e. disabled when inapplicable, but I'm thinking that it would also make sense to show a floating notification bar that notifies the user that the command failed because it did not apply, e.g. "Object is not a clone".
The status bar at the bottom of the application does indeed let you know why it failed.
Cheers,
Josh