On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:17:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is an a bit unqualified question by someone who doesn't know a lot of
> programming. Since I use ion3 I have wondered why is it so complicated to
> configure the statusbar?

Complicated? For most purposes editing the template in cfg_statusbar.lua
should be sufficient.

>  Wouldn't a different concept have been simplier
> to use and to implement? If the statusbar where just a special frame with
> something like a 1-line-shell running, where a normal shell script could
> be executed,

But it would be difficult to match Ion's graphical style. Not all styles
use a simple white on black with monospace text statusbar. Also there
actually is a separate ion-statusd that prints everything else except the
date in its stdout. 

-- 
Tuomo

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