Core Feature: status bar

[way-cooler]

Core Feature: status bar

[DorianGray]

Maybe a lua API for managing events, like when a new window is added or whatever, and a default theme? I've done a ton of stuff with awesome in this space, including rendering my own vector icons using cairo from lua.

http://imgur.com/a/RGKm5

[Timidger]

I believe that's the route we are going. We are leaning towards using Conrod and Lua together, with a Conrod layer exposing a nice widget construction library/framework that Lua can call into and dynamically construct and modify the bar.

[DorianGray]

Neat! I read a little about that in another issue.

[valpackett]

I wrote systemstat + unixbar for dzen2/lemonbar/i3bar/swaybar… Actually a simple i3-compatible bar in way-cooler like in sway would be cool.

Also, you could use systemstat directly for getting system info in your bar. (Linux support is incomplete for now: loadavg/memory/battery works, cpu/mounts/networks aren't implemented.)

[Timidger]

The bars are designed to be swappable, so an i3-compatible bar could definitely be something that can be developed (either by us or others). The sway one won't work, since he makes sway-specific IPC calls in his. It could be translated easily enough to Rust/the IPC Way-Cooler though.

We'll look into using systemstat when we start work on the bar, we are still probably a month out at least from starting to work on that.

Question about your unixbar -- does it just output formatted text to be displayed by some other program? If so that's a nice simple way to design a bar, but we'll still need a way to display it graphically to the user (we'd like the bar to not have to use xwayland)

[SolidTux]

What are the current plans for this? I'd like to help with this issue, but I don't know where to start.

Edit: Why did I automatically unassign SnirkImmington by commenting?

[Timidger]

Hi there!

The plan is for the status bar to be the same as in awesome, so really this issue is kind of useless now because there not be a dedicated bar program.