I hacked together support for custom netwm icons set in the rules
section of .awesomerc, and for iconboxes and netwm icons to be scaled
to fit into the statusbar. It could probably be done a bit more
cleanly than I've done it, though :)
Rob
protocol to speak to them. Given a textbox widget definition like this:
textbox mail {
default = 0
}
textbox time {}
We can update the boxes individually by going:
echo 0 tell_widget mail 10
echo 0 tell_widget time 12:01
Text boxes will dynamically resize to fit their contents. A textbox can be
cleared by going:
echo 0 tell_widget name
A text-box containing no text will take up 0 space in the bar, i.e. it will not
be visible at all
Textboxes now supersede statusbar_set_text, so this call has been removed.
The big change here is that we now keep our configuration structure in a global
variable called globalconf. This radically simplifies many interfaces, since
passing awesomeconf everywhere is no longer necessary. There are also more
subtle interface effects - now we can reliably identify a screen from just a
screen ID, rather than an awesomeconf, screenid tuple.
Overall, this patch makes most of the interfaces in awesome much nicer to use -
enjoy!
Yes, this is a huge patch, but since a lot of the refactoring was done
systematically using vim macros, splitting this up would have been very hard.
We now have the beginnings of a flexible widget structure for the statusbar.
For now, there is no behavioural change, and the interface is a bit crude, but
watch this space!
Julien Danjou
Robert Millar
Aldo Cortesi