Hi, I've written a statusbar script to periodically fetch mail and update counts. I set the timer for this script to 2.5 minutes. But if I check my mail manually, I don't have a nice way to update the counts (I have to wait till the timer reaches the end of it's 2.5 minute period).
What I do for now is restart Ion if the wrong counts really bother me. The problem as I see it is that the namespace for the statusbar is issolated from the namespace for the Ion session, so I can't define a function that I can call from Ion. And there's no `kpress' function in statusbar namespace to bind keystrokes with. I had an idea, but before I played around with it, I wanted to see what you all thought. I just realized that I can call `ioncore.create_timer' and `mod_statusbar.inform' in a normal Ion script, which resolves my namespace problem. However, I'm bypassing the ion-statusd in doing this. Do I loose anything by bypassing ion-statusd and calling `ioncore.create_timer' and `mod_statusbar.inform' directly from a standard Ion script (assuming a statusbar has already been created)? My best guess is that `ion-statusd' might have been broken off from the main `ion3' program as its own daemon for performance reasons, but I'm not sure. Thanks, Sukant
