Re: Progress gauge review

At 12:39 AM 6/3/00 -0700, Ben Wing wrote: I don't feel possessive over the current progress gauge - if anyone wants to play around with it be my guest. It is progress though :) Ideally we would use the status bar widget that comes with windows but unfortuneately there is no X equivalent. I guess an alternative would be to allow the lower gutter to be permanently placed below the echo area - but that's not going to look quite the same. You could also (as you point out) put a progress gauge in the echo area - or even the modeline (see glyph-tests.el for an example). The problem I found with this was that you couldn't actually make progress gauges under X small enough to fit - they seemed to have a minimum size below which meant they would just not display. With all of this stuff its easy to do something that looks good under windows, much harder to do it under X. Still harder under Athena :). I would like to see all of the displayable portions of XEmacs be widgets in their own right so that you could arbitrarily put together the look and feel. I don't see how we can do this easily without dropping tty support however. The whole modeline / echo-area / minibuffer thing looks very archaic to me, it would be nice to put all of the modeline info in a bottom status bar and put the minibuffer under the toolbar with a little combo-box like a browser, the echo area could live in the status bar. This is all a lot of work needless to say, but there's an argument that say's we are going to have to do it at some point if XEmacs is to survive at all. Maybe we should fork a new branch and ditch tty (and Athena since Motif is now free) ..... andy -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Andy Piper Principal Consultant, BEA Systems Ltd