make doom-modeline optional

[systemcrafters]

make doom-modeline optional

[daviwil]

@ajxn Honestly, I have a similar concern. I think it would be nice if we could make our own nice looking, minimal mode line configuration that doesn't depend on an external package. Mode line customization is a little harder to understand at first compared to general Emacs config, so it might be nice to have our own mode line here to serve as an example, as you suggested.

I made a recommendation in #45 to introduce a rational-doom-modeline.el instead, but I think what we really need first is our own rational-modeline.el that doesn't require an external package.

[ajxn]

Just a comment, please don't make to much of it.
Is it possible to make the same thing with packages that is part of vanilla Emacs, or is it some extensions you nead to load? If possible, I think solving that without modules are preferable to loading packages. Like using vc instead of magit etc. Even if loading packages might be needed for backward compatibility when packages are included in Emacs in later versions.

That said, David have the last call, and it could be a good example for beginners to build their own settings from. And could be controlled by some condition to be loaded. I don't know.

Anyway, keep on hacking and don't listen to nay sayers like me. ;-)

[erikLundstedt]

@ajxn Honestly, I have a similar concern. I think it would be nice if we could make our own nice looking, minimal mode line configuration that doesn't depend on an external package. Mode line customization is a little harder to understand at first compared to general Emacs config, so it might be nice to have our own mode line here to serve as an example, as you suggested.

I made a recommendation in #45 to introduce a rational-doom-modeline.el instead, but I think what we really need first is our own rational-modeline.el that doesn't require an external package.

I know im late (by several months) to this, but the implementation I have(its now in my own config repo) allows the user to pick between the existing options(powerline and doom are the ones currently implemented) im thinking of this as more similar to the eglot vs LSP discussion,(powerline being lighter and more emacs-native) at least until we can make something fully custom, if at all.
my module currently allows the user to chose what modeline to use without having to write the config themselves if they dont want to, so merging it shouldn't be too hard

if someone here could help me get crafted-modeline.el up to standards that would be great as im not super comfortable in elisp and ive mainly done 1-person git projects where my code is mostly used by myself and where having unnecessary files isn't an issue. i`m also not too comfortable with github as im a gitlab user most of the time

[jeffbowman]

As requested on #246, Here is a repost of the comment from closing this issue.

#44 has been around for quite a while, there were a couple attempts at closing it, but they never found their way into the system. I left it open hoping it would give someone else an opportunity to get involved. That never happened, so I have resolved that issue. Doom modeline is now optional and off by default. If you want it back on, customize the crafted-ui-use-doom-modeline to have a value of t.

I appreciate everyone who provided PRs for this a while back, even if they weren't merged here. Other PRs included possible modeline configuration from powerline as well. The solution here simply turns doom-modeline on or off based on the user's preference.

Also, posting the commit message:

This is a potentially "breaking" change for those who use
doom-modeline. By default, it is no longer enabled when using this
module. Instead, the user must enable it by setting the option
crafted-ui-use-doom-modeline to t in their config.el file.