Re: [STUMP] mode-line formatting

[Shawn]

"Rohan Nicholls" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey there everyone,
>
> I have a question about formatting the modeline.  I did an aptitude
> dist-upgrade and gnome-panel went south.  Tried fixing it, but it was
> doing some very strange things so I put the mode-line back and was
> pleasantly surprised at the result.
>
> I made a list of what it was useful for and am coming up with
> solutions, but one of the things I liked was that I had all my statusy
> stuff sitting on the right-hand side of the bar, and my other stuff
> sitting and expanding and contracting on the left.  The inevitable
> question follows: has anyone figured out a way to format this?  And in
> a related vein, is there a way to generate an image, and have it
> display in the modeline?  I was thinking something like streaming
> images to browsers or something.

Currently you can't right align text in the modeline nor add pics. If
you feel up to the task, I'd love to see what you come up with.

-Shawn