From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes Date: 21 Aug 2002 13:52:03 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xk7mlfsvf.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208210429.NAA19918@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029905694 20156 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 04:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:54:54 +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 17hNW7-0005Ez-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:54:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hNyM-0000DL-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:24:02 +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 17hNXE-0004l4-00; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hNV8-0004jk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hNV6-0004jY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17hNV5-0004jS-00; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g7L4rS424493; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:53:28 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g7L4rS508251; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:53:28 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g7L4q4G14968; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:53:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g7L4q4s12491; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:52:04 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0DC5F36F2; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:52:03 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Kenichi Handa System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200208210429.NAA19918@etlken.m17n.org> Original-Lines: 22 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:6714 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6714 Kenichi Handa writes: > > Now, if you enable display-time and display-battery, > > which adds time and battery status, e.g. 15:57 [95%], > > to that part of the mode line as well, it's a total mess. > > 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. Hmm, that seems like a great idea (for global info like that). I think the menu-bar would be better, since I don't use a tool-bar...:-/ I don't think it would be too hard to hack something like that into the lucid toolkit that comes with emacs, but I have no idea about other toolkits. -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)