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The new line & column display style and position is confusing, as it can look like a time-of-day display (European style), and is at the lower right, very close to the time-of-day display of the Windows taskbar (when the NetBeans window is maximized, as is usually the case). Almost every time I look at the taskbar to look at the time I get confused because I see two "time-of-day" displays, see the attached screenshot. The fact that there's usually the output window or some other lower-pane window that separates the line & column display from the editor window doesn't help either. I understand that the new position is for saving screen real estate by eliminating the editor window's status bar, but the result is a bit unfortunate. Aside from the "time-of-day" issue, on a large screen (e.g. 1920×1200), the line & column (and insert mode) display is often quite far away from the current input position, which is a drawback compared with the old position. Suggestions: Move the line & column display more to the left. Format the line & column number such that it is sufficiently distinct from a time-of-day display. (NB version: 6.7rc2)
Created attachment 83372 [details] Screenshot.
Added UI team people to comment on this first.
Ulf Zibis made me aware of the -J-Dnetbeans.winsys.statusLine.in.menuBar=true command line configuration option on the 67cat mailing list. That option works around this issue by moving the status bar to the menu bar. Of course a real solution as suggested would be preferable.
Seems like a valid request. Changing the position to the left would solve the issue, but I'm not sure if the benefit would outweigh the necessity to get used to looking to the other side of screen for all our users. Let's change the separator to vertical a line ("|"), add one space to each side of the separator and keep the position. If the problem persists we can always move the indicator later, there is enough time for the next release. Just to summarize, after the changes suggested the indicator with windows bar would look as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ][ 10 | 24 INS | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 01:04 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another possibility would be to move the other, "global" elements of the status bar, like notification icons and the progress bar, to the right of the editing indicators. It would make sense for such global elements to be placed farther outwards than the editor-specific elements. Ideally the editor elements would be left-aligned with the editor window, but that may be difficult to achieve technically.
Implemented separator " | " instead of current ":". IMHO it looks relatively good so marking as fixed. http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/34b2f02a5b75
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200906161401* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/34b2f02a5b75 User: Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka@netbeans.org> Log: #166820 - Line & column number display.
verified in the buil 090702
The fix has been ported into the release67_fixes repository. http://hg.netbeans.org/release67_fixes/rev/fb82fc483cd2
v in 6.7.1