Bug 475873

Summary:	RFE: Add a status bar for VNC window: allows quick media change, usage indicators, grab notice
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Daniel Bass <dbass>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Daniel Bass 2008-12-10 21:16:30 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4

In virt-manager, when the mouse is grabbed, "Press Ctrl+Alt to release pointer." is added to the window title. This makes it excessively long and can hide the most useful piece of information, the VM name. I believe this information should be in ONE of the menu bar, the toolbar, or a (new) status bar (with my preference being in that order).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2012-02-06 21:48:31 UTC

The proper place for this to be would be a status bar at the bottom. However we aren't going to add one just for the message, so changing this bug to track the actual work that would be needed.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2012-02-07 16:10:44 UTC

*** Bug 640914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2018-10-03 23:47:51 UTC

This is a nice idea but give the UI dev resources allocated to virt-manager I don't really expect this to ever happen. UI patterns have come a long way in the past 10 years anyways so if we were going to devote resources to this the first thing to do would get a designer to give it a fresh look.

Regardless this bug isn't going to accomplish anything