[scribus] turn off bottom portion of Scribus window?

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/28/2012 11:14 AM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> Þann mið 28.mar 2012 14:22, skrifaði Cat:
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:43 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
>>
>>> no, but somebody should take care of it and make it much more compact!
>>
>> Is there also a place to express such desires to the right somebodies?
>>
>> ;-)
>
> So many software projects are struggling these days to squeeze their
> interfaces into usable netbook/tablet formats; mostly by degrading
> usability for those who use *real* computers and *adequate*
> screen-estate.
>
> I sincerely hope Scribus won't go that route - after all it is a
> layout/typesetting software.
>
> That said, I remember the 'Workspaces' concept in many design
> software some time ago. At least CorelDraw and I think Quark came
> with several view profiles, configurable to death; one could also
> save different ones for different tasks/situations; why not one
> profile/workspace for multiscreen use, another for small displays,
> one for design and another for reviewing, etc...???
>
> This of course means an extra layer for the UI, depending a lot on
> OS and toolkit in use, maybe difficult to implement.
>

I think you must also think in terms of all the other variables at your 
disposal to affect the workspace size and usability.

1. You can reduce the size of menu fonts to near-illegibility, which 
reduces the height of the menu bar.
2. You can eliminate the entire row of icons in the toolbar, in which 
case you free up the space the toolbar consumes.
3. In Linux at least, you can get rid of the taskbar/panel at the bottom 
of your screen, which results in an enlargement of the Scribus window.
4. You can adjust the default zoom of your page display. You can also 
adjust the percentage step of zoom.

When I have used Scribus on a netbook, my biggest problem was dialogs 
which had a minimal height too large for my screen, but thankfully there 
have been changes to eliminate this. Even so, holding down the
Alt key allows you do move dialogs offscreen.

In the end, when you consider all of these factors, the slight change 
one might make with eliminating this bottom bar is small.

Greg