> Why not up in the Command Options area..? That seems to be where
> MoI does most of it's communicating already.
It certainly would be good from a "central area to focus on" type of perspective.
But a couple of problems - there isn't really room for very much text there, it's pretty hard to even fit some prompt text in there sometimes. I could imagine that some error or feedback messages would be even harder to fit in there.
Another problem is that it would then increase the size of the command options area - one nice thing about the command options area is that many commands fit all their UI inside of the given space, which is good because it prevents the side pane from being pushed down too often. Adding more stuff in there would make it a bit more likely that it would get pushed down for more commands.
One thing I have thought of is to run the bottom toolbar all the way to the right edge of the window, and then that area could contain a couple of lines of text that were wider than the side pane. That would shorten up the side pane a bit because currently it runs all the way to the bottom edge. The other problem is it would then make another different area of the screen that had information about the currently running command...
- Michael
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