Add a status bar

[jleclanche]

Status bar should show:

• foo.txt (plain text document, 1.2KiB)
• 3 files selected (10KiB total)
• 13 files, 2 directories (2.7MiB total) //no selection
• foo (link to ../foo, 136KiB)

[ABBAPOH]

I prefer not to use status bar in applications - people rarely use it and it requires additional vertical space. Also Apple usability guide clearly says not to use status bar in modern applications.

[jleclanche]

In a file manager, i find myself using it a lot. It, of course, should be optional with a setting to toggle it. But knowing how large a file is, how many items a folder has inside it, how many files I have selected or where a symlink points are very recurring use-cases. I find myself missing the statusbar a lot.

[fr33mind]

I think status bar should be included by default, for the same reasons Adys said. There are other options, such as: a tooltip or a right panel. The right panel could be like the one dolphin has: http://www.tuxarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dolphin02.png

[ABBAPOH]

Btw, on a screenshot you can see that dolphin main window doesn't have a status bar - each panel have separate status bar. I think we can think about adding such kind of status bar - special statusbar for specific editor - one statusbar for a web view, other for a file manager. With an option to hide this bar. For a filemanager, we can add "show left panel" and "enable dual pane" buttons there and info about a file/folder. But for me, i would like to disable status bar by default.

[ABBAPOH]

Ok, we've discussed statusbar here. I will add a status bar for each editor separately, so there will be no global status bar.