face for clock display in modeline

face for clock display in modeline

[Samuel Wales]

Just a possibility.

I sometimes forget to clock out.  I wonder if the showing a
distinctive face for the clock display might prevent that.

It looks like org-clock-update-mode-line is the relevant function, but
customizing modeline-highlight face did not change the face.

Thanks.

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Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Carsten Dominik]

I would not know how to make this work either.....

- Carsten

On Jun 4, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Just a possibility.
>
> I sometimes forget to clock out.  I wonder if the showing a
> distinctive face for the clock display might prevent that.
>
> It looks like org-clock-update-mode-line is the relevant function, but
> customizing modeline-highlight face did not change the face.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> suffering,
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Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga]

Carsten Dominik writes:
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> > I sometimes forget to clock out.  I wonder if the showing a
> > distinctive face for the clock display might prevent that.
> >
> > It looks like org-clock-update-mode-line is the relevant function, but
> > customizing modeline-highlight face did not change the face.

> I would not know how to make this work either.....

I believe you can customise the mode line entry for org-mode to
include a face to use for that particular element of the mode line.
For instance, check out the following variable:

  mode-line-buffer-identification

It specifies (in a local map) the face (mode-line-buffer-id) to use
for displaying the buffer name (bold by default) and this face can be
customised.  It should be possible to define a similar entry for
org-mode-line-string with an appropriately defined face?

HTH!

Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga]

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> I believe you can customise the mode line entry for org-mode to
> [...]

Responding to my own suggestion, adding the line

	 'face 'mode-line-buffer-id

into the let statement of the org-clock-update-mode-line function
after the mouse-face setting makes the clock display using the same
face as the buffer (as a test), a face that can easily be highlighted.

Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Carsten Dominik]

Thanks Eric!

Samuel, after you next pull, customize the face org-mode-line-clock.

HTH

- Carsten

On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Carsten Dominik writes:
>> On Jun 4, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:
>>> I sometimes forget to clock out.  I wonder if the showing a
>>> distinctive face for the clock display might prevent that.
>>>
>>> It looks like org-clock-update-mode-line is the relevant function,  
>>> but
>>> customizing modeline-highlight face did not change the face.
>
>> I would not know how to make this work either.....
>
> I believe you can customise the mode line entry for org-mode to
> include a face to use for that particular element of the mode line.
> For instance, check out the following variable:
>
>  mode-line-buffer-identification
>
> It specifies (in a local map) the face (mode-line-buffer-id) to use
> for displaying the buffer name (bold by default) and this face can be
> customised.  It should be possible to define a similar entry for
> org-mode-line-string with an appropriately defined face?
>
> HTH!

Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga]

Carsten Dominik writes:
> Thanks Eric!
> 
> Samuel, after you next pull, customize the face org-mode-line-clock.

You're welcome and I like what you have done.  I played around with
the code in org-faces.el yesterday but your solution is much nicer
than I what I had come up with (I'm still very much a noob when it
comes to elisp).

Re: face for clock display in modeline

[David Abrahams]

on Sat Jun 06 2009, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf-AT-ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik writes:
>> Thanks Eric!
>> 
>> Samuel, after you next pull, customize the face org-mode-line-clock.
>
> You're welcome and I like what you have done.  I played around with
> the code in org-faces.el yesterday but your solution is much nicer
> than I what I had come up with (I'm still very much a noob when it
> comes to elisp).

Thanks to both of you; this is going to make a real difference in my
life!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

Re: face for clock display in modeline

[Samuel Wales]

It works!

Thanks to both of you.

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