Status bar and widgets

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
design, desktop

Research direction

No implementation files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the existing prompt and status-bar UI, then define the scope of a language-agnostic widget/plugin specification; done should include an agreed design and a clear path for displaying and updating widgets.

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Description

enhancement triaged
Describe the solution you'd like?

(Related to #96, but capturing the idea separately to not conflate things.)

Along the same line as Warp's re-imagining of commands as blocks and a separate input area, I'd love to see customizable status bar "widgets" as an alternative UX to putting even more information into the prompt string. Ideally there'd be a language-agnostic plugin spec to support advanced use cases.

Some limitations of prompt strings:

  • Just a single string; keeping it compact while showing enough context can get cumbersome
  • Have no ability to update periodically (ex: switching git branches in another terminal isn't reflected until running a new command / no live-updating system metrics)
  • Are limited to text (ex: doing any sort of graph-drawing for system metrics relies on text glyphs / iconography limited to glyphs and emoji)

iTerm supports these in text form: https://iterm2.com/documentation-status-bar.html
And has an API that the community has built things on:

My particular basic use case is showing AWS_PROFILE / AWS_VAULT / other project-specific env vars always in the status bar (setup is basically this: https://medium.com/@msvechla/customizing-the-new-iterm2-status-bar-to-your-needs-252eee06bf39), but there's a lot of opportunity for innovation here on more interesting and dynamic cases. Some ideas:

  • Poll CI progress + success for the current branch (Have my tests passed yet? Elapsed time + red/green success -> click the widget to go to the full build.)
  • Show status of deployed services
  • Approval status of the PR for the current branch
  • New updates available in Homebrew or other package managers
  • Many more things from Starship and others: https://starship.rs/config/#prompt
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

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