Make available map extents available as a window that accepts cursor input

[springmeyer]

The "Current Map Scale" window on the lower right of the QGIS application allows for user interaction to set the scale manually.

It would be great to hardcode the "Extents" coordinates in that same location. Currently they appear in the lower left as alternative text when the user is using the map zoom or pan tools.

It seems reasonable to always have them showing, and perhaps they could appear as a toggled item between the coordinates of the cursor location?

The great benefit of having them in a window that accepts text input would be the ability to copy the coordinates to the systems clipboard for use in other programs. The ability to manually set the extents by copying text (likely comma delimited) would be a bonus.

If this switch were made it seems reasonable to me to reduce the precision of the coordinates significantly so that the text output would be much smaller. Reporting the coordinates as long integers like the cursor coordinates would be great.