Re: [9front] Bounties

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, at 7:06 AM, Jens Staal wrote:
> [2] A bar for the i3-like rio replacement with useful info = 30 €
> 
> Some info that should be possible to display: workspaces, system info (cpu load,
> memory load, network load, ...), digital 24h clock. If not configurable, the bar
> should be at the top of the screen on all work spaces.

I wouldn't make this as described, it's making extra code with a different interface for no reason; very un-9ish. ;) Instead, I'd make a text field or a window. The text field would be linked to a writeable file, similar to writeable /dev/text. A script could write to it, as I once did in Rio to display time and battery while 9vx was full-screen. (If /dev/text had been writeable, it would have been perfect.)

The window would be a superset of this. A command to the window manager would start a program with the bar as its window. A script could write text to /dev/text or a graphical program could run in it. It's very easy to make a graphical program for that sort of task, or Rio could be patched to run multiple programs in the bar.