- They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very "tight", as Mark put it). I already find many of the controls on those screenshots to be quite large, and everything starts adding up to eat up our screen space.
- Do we need them to be shaded? Status bars will be displaying on screens that are relatively busy already; Chrome's status bar overlays are a solid colour with no frills.
- Do we need the icon? What purpose does it serve? Is there some other way we can provide this functionality without adding them to the status bars?
- Could we see some mockups with the status bar displaying outside the window border? I have run into this situation in Chrome on OS X and Windows before under certain circumstances, and frankly I prefer it to in-window overlays. Of course if the window is near or at the bottom of the screen, we would move the overlay up into the window as required.
Looking good!
-Scott
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Scott Armitage,
B.A.Sc.,
M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6