Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please review: two new help pages

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Well, that's odd! Why using "status bar" but "toolbar"? Is there any  
> reason behind this?
> I had a short look at the GNOME HIG, and they name it exactly that way.

I guess it depends on whose HIG (and software) are being used.

The Apple HIG for Mac OS X refers to "toolbar(s)"; it didn't refer to a  
"status bar" in any obvious place, but the Cocoa documentation appears  
to refer to "status bar(s)" (and that's what Safari calls it in the  
View menu).

The KDE User Interface Guidelines can't seem to make up its mind:

	http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/toolbar/ 
index.html

"The classic toolbar is a buttonbar. KDE toolbars can also  contain  
other widgets, e. g., labels, line edits, combo  boxes, and frames  
(which can contain everything else!).

The tool bar offers a quick way to invoke actions that are  used  
frequently. Remember: all actions should be  accessible through the  
menu bar - don't have an action  in the toolbar that isn't also in the  
menubar!"

	http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/statusbar/ 
index.html

"Statusbar

The status bar is for displaying information on the state of the  
document  you are working on. Typically you will have more than one  
field for  information in the bar. The first of these inserted will  
have their  size fixed and the last will span the remaining width of  
the window."

whereas Microsquish appears to use "toolbar" and "status bar":

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ 
dnwue/html/ch08d.asp