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Suggestion - to make it easier to create your own Explorer tabs, move the status bar to the APIs as a utility class. I suggest the Explorer View package; in fact I think it could be a real view, i.e. search for ExplorerManager.Provider to find the associated ExplorerManager. With such a change, you would just need to make a TopComponent, add a BeanTreeView to the center and a MiniStatusBar to the south, set a root context, and you would be done. Core-supplied tabs need to also listen to IDESettings to see if the status bar should be turned on or off, I guess. No proposed equivalent for module-supplied tabs; they can display it or not at their discretion.
Passing to Jiri. Please have a look at it, if it is worth beeing API. Currently there are two same codes of MiniStatusBar, in core and in projects.
A somewhat different suggestion: Make it possible to turn status bar on or off from a context menu in BeanTreeView (i.e. if you right-click on blank space) or from the status bar itself (if currently visible). Remove property from IDESettings. Store status bar on/off state in the ExplorerPanel when externalizing - BeanTreeView could e.g. use a client property for this, to avoid introducing a public getter/setter into ExplorerPanel. Make "on" the default.
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Shouldn't this issue be closed? MiniStatusBar is long dead.
I guess so.