From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Global indicators
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:05:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd0ai9ew.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aahmv2vm.fsf_-_@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (Julien Danjou's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:48:29 +0100")
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>> Global indicators, especially transient ones, ought to use the echo
>> area.
>
> This is a more general problem. There's no space for global indicator in
> Emacs, e.g. display-time, erc-track etc "abuses" mode-line because they
> have no other choice. Using the echo area which is transient does not
> seems like the right thing to do.
>
> Unless somone add a non transient part to it. That would be awesome.
>
>> If that's too hard, how about reserving the first character in the echo
>> area for a spinner instead?
>
> Why not rather a full part of the echo area for all the global
> indicators that should be there rather than in the mode-line?
I think this is a good idea. How about putting such indicators on the
right-hand side of the echo area, justified to the right? We could give
it a slightly less prominent face to distinguish it from ordinary echo
area messages.
One I can think of is that it might get confusing if echo area messages
start to overlap the indicator area (especially multi-line messages).
And how this would interact with the minibuffer is not clear.
One more thing: we could put a GTK spinner object (GtkSpinner) on the
right edge of the GTK tool bar. I haven't looked into the details, but
the required code changes probably won't be too challenging.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 3:36 auth-source-search: annoying messages Miles Bader
2011-02-17 12:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 12:30 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 13:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 16:06 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 16:50 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters (was: auth-source-search: annoying messages) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-17 21:43 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-18 14:47 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-18 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-20 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-20 18:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-21 18:54 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-22 17:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 8:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-23 8:46 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 15:59 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-23 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 20:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-23 21:28 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-23 21:35 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:48 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 0:05 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-02-24 0:13 ` Global indicators Drew Adams
2011-02-24 11:02 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 11:12 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 11:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 12:56 ` joakim
2011-02-25 2:41 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-24 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 13:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-24 16:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 21:53 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-24 16:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-23 22:04 ` David Kastrup
2011-02-24 0:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 1:27 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizableprogress-reporter--pulse-characters Drew Adams
2011-02-24 2:01 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Chong Yidong
2011-02-24 3:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-24 18:05 ` Global indicators (was: make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-24 19:56 ` Global indicators Michael Albinus
2011-03-01 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-28 18:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 13:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-29 8:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-25 13:56 ` make-progress-reporter suggestions: 'modeline and customizable progress-reporter--pulse-characters Michael Albinus
2011-02-17 20:17 ` auth-source-search: annoying messages Stefan Monnier
2011-02-18 20:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 22:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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