From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:42:07 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208240042.JAA24637@etlken.m17n.org> References: <5xk7mlfsvf.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208210429.NAA19918@etlken.m17n.org> <87znvd1qkr.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030149808 31321 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2002 00:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17iP1T-000894-00 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 02:43:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17iPV5-0002FX-00 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:14:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17iP2e-0002T8-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17iP0N-0002IB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17iP0K-0002Hp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17iP0K-0002Hj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:42:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.11.6/3.7W-20010518204228) with ESMTP id g7O0g8l17062; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:42:08 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.3/3.7W-20010823150639) with ESMTP id g7O0g8908426; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:42:08 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA24637; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:42:07 +0900 (JST) Original-To: ats@acm.org In-Reply-To: <87znvd1qkr.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (message from Alan Shutko on Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:35:00 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.1.30 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6818 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6818 In article <87znvd1qkr.fsf@wesley.springies.com>, Alan Shutko writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: >> I'd like to display such global information not in the mode >> line but, for instance, at the right end of menu bar, or >> tool bar if they exist. > No. This information is important to the user (otherwise the user > would not have turned it on). Putting it at the end of anything, be > it the mode-line, the menu bar, or the tool bar, will sometimes lose > this information if the toolbar or menubar is too long (which often, > it is). I mean "... at the right end of menu bar ... overriding the other data". So, if that is implemented, we don't loose that information. It may be better that the hidden part appears (by hiding display-time-string) when one moves mouse to the area in the menu bar where normal menus are displayed. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@etl.go.jp