A couple questions

[Sacha Sokoloski]

Fair enough. It would still indeed be nice to have the option to set 
default text in the case of no connection.

As far as my other questions are concerned, it would also still be nice 
to control the width of the wattage display, and as well to have a fall 
back font or at least the option of using html flags or something to set 
different fonts for certain characters. The first I might just endeavour 
to patch myself, but the second I believe would be beyond me. I did 
notice that this feature was requested another time in the mailing list, 
so perhaps that's moving along anyway?

As far as the xmonad embedding is concerned, it's less about embedding 
into xmonad and more about typechecking the config file, wherever it 
lives. I've found that debugging my config file can be a pain sometimes 
it a way that seems unecessary. Nevertheless, it's not a huge deal, just 
perhaps a simple 'nice to have' which isn't worth the effort.

Thanks,

  - Sacha

On 13/07/13 01:00 PM, xmobar-request at projects.haskell.org wrote:
> As for the DynNetwork plugin: I don't think the regular wlan plugin behaves
> any differently when the device is down? And besides, I don't think
> substitution is a good way to go with this. At least in my case, I am
> either interested in the state of a certain thing on my machine or I am
> not. If I want to know my disk usage, then I configure xmobar to show this.
> When the network device is down, it would probably make sense to indicate
> that with some text (e.g. not connected) or, of course, configurable.
>
> I don't see why you would want to embed the config into the one from
> xmonad. The config of xmobar could be typechecked without the presence of
> xmonad and vice versa.
>
> - Reto