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26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line

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From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:44:32 -0500

severity: wishlist

It would be nice to have something similar to the mode line but that
doesn't get duplicated for every window. This would be nice to show (for
example) non-window-specific information like the time, number of new
emails/notifications, etc.

It would also be nice if the location was configurable (I'd personally
like it to be displayed across the top of the frame rather than the
bottom).

Thanks,
Alex

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:20:27 +0300

> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:44:32 -0500
> 
> It would be nice to have something similar to the mode line but that
> doesn't get duplicated for every window. This would be nice to show (for
> example) non-window-specific information like the time, number of new
> emails/notifications, etc.

We already have that: it's called the tool bar.  Of course, if you use
a GTK or NS build, your Emacs is challenged, since the tool-bar
display is delegated to the toolkit.

Anyway, the way the tool bar is implemented in Emacs suggests the
implementation of the requested feature: a special window that
displays the contents of a Lisp string (which then could have other
display elements by way of display and other text properties).

Volunteers welcome.

Message #11 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>, 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:41:40 +0200

> It would be nice to have something similar to the mode line but that
> doesn't get duplicated for every window. This would be nice to show (for
> example) non-window-specific information like the time, number of new
> emails/notifications, etc.
>
> It would also be nice if the location was configurable (I'd personally
> like it to be displayed across the top of the frame rather than the
> bottom).

You can use a side window, see section 28.19 "Side Windows" of the Elisp
manual, for that.

martin

Message #14 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:55:49 -0500

On Sat 16 Jun 2018 at 01:41, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:

>> It would be nice to have something similar to the mode line but that
>> doesn't get duplicated for every window. This would be nice to show (for
>> example) non-window-specific information like the time, number of new
>> emails/notifications, etc.
>>
>> It would also be nice if the location was configurable (I'd personally
>> like it to be displayed across the top of the frame rather than the
>> bottom).
>
> You can use a side window, see section 28.19 "Side Windows" of the Elisp
> manual, for that.

Thanks for the suggestion. This looks similar to what I want, but it
doesn't look like there's a way to make it apply to all frames (like the
mode-line does), right?

Thanks,
Alex

Message #17 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:53:38 +0200

>> You can use a side window, see section 28.19 "Side Windows" of the Elisp
>> manual, for that.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. This looks similar to what I want, but it
> doesn't look like there's a way to make it apply to all frames (like the
> mode-line does

... strictly spoken a mode-line "applies" to a buffer or a window but
not to a frame ...

), right?

It doesn't apply to all frames, right.  You have to add some code,
probably to 'after-make-frame-functions', to display such a side
window on every frame.

martin

Message #20 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:54:55 +0200

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> Thanks for the suggestion. This looks similar to what I want, but it
>> doesn't look like there's a way to make it apply to all frames (like the
>> mode-line does

[...]

> It doesn't apply to all frames, right.  You have to add some code,
> probably to 'after-make-frame-functions', to display such a side
> window on every frame.

I think the conclusion here is that the Side Windows thing covers the
proposed use case, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #25 received at 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>,
 31851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31851: 26.1; Support a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:54:03 +0300

> martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:
>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. This looks similar to what I want, but it
>>> doesn't look like there's a way to make it apply to all frames (like the
>>> mode-line does
>
> [...]
>
>> It doesn't apply to all frames, right.  You have to add some code,
>> probably to 'after-make-frame-functions', to display such a side
>> window on every frame.
>
> I think the conclusion here is that the Side Windows thing covers the
> proposed use case, so I'm closing this bug report.

Actually, now there is a frame-wide bar similar to the mode line
that can be configured using tab-bar-format in tab-bar-mode.

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