> Il giorno 14 gen 2016, alle ore 20:17, Sergio L. Pascual <s...@sinrega.org> 
> ha scritto:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 17:06 +0100, alex wrote:
>>> Il giorno 14 gen 2016, alle ore 16:35, Sergio L. Pascual <slp@sinre
>>> ga.org> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 00:23 -0500, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>>>> Also, which version of the Rik theme are you using here?
>> 
>>> 
>>> The one from this repo (https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/ri
>>> k.th
>>> eme) with a minor change to enlarge the main menu bar.
>> 
>> I’d like to know how you got the clock on the right side of the menu
>> bar, and if it is possible to do the same thing with X11.
>> If you forked from github the theme, could you provide your repo so I
>> can see if your little changes are also useful for the mainstream
>> theme on X11.
> 
> The only change I've made to the theme is increasing the menuBarHeight
> from 26 to 32.
> 
> The clock (and potentially other things, as launchers or a systray) is
> drawn by the modified weston shell, in a top-level window (surface, in
> Wayland terminology) with transparent background, which takes 1/4 of
> the screen's width, aligned to the right.
> 
> I took this idea from OSX. If you run there an app with an unresponsive
> GUI, you'll see the main menu bar appears as busy too, but the right
> side of it (where the clock, wifi and volume control are drawn) still
> works. This means there's a different component there, which is being
> managed and drawn by a different process.
> 
> Sergio.

Perfect! Clear explanation I understood. I was thinking to do the same thing on 
X11 but in a different way (customizing through subclass or category NSMenu), 
but we’ll talk on another thread this is going off topic.

Alex

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