On 2007-10-25, Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or, if I can't make the second statusbar, may be it is possible to > make multi-line statusbar (i think, two lines would be enough)?
I've suggested it to people a zillion times to write multi-line support into the statusbar. It shouldn't be that difficult, but I can't be arsed, because the single-line version works for me, and I have more interesting things to do than waste my time writing software for the doomed platform that FOSS/*nix is. With multi-line support non-destructive toggling could easily also be provided by having zero lines. But nothing has happened yet. Various other improvements could be made to the statusbar, such as supporting meters as regions for mouse actions. I've also suggested improving the statusd to be a cleaner general-purpose tool. But I guess nothing will happen wrt. that either. (Ideally something like DBus could be used -- but not DBus itself because it's UTF-8 monoculturist [1].) (Not that anything typically happens wrt. any suggestions, especially not those related to modular code. People rather complain about not supporting something or not working like they want, and then rather than writing a module, fork or write a 95% clone from scratch. And in the end you have 100 highly flawed and unfinished programs that do essentially the same thing but with different flaws, instead of a handful of good programs that do a different thing.) Ok, today's rant quota is full... [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2006/08/26/T20_16_06/ -- Tuomo
