Moving (and colouring) status box

[harryray2]

I mentioned this a while back...are you still planning on including the option to move the status box to the far left?

I've moved my status bar to the top but Unfortunately, too often, I set something (such as temp excludes) and then forget about it.
For me, if the box was on the left (preferably with the option to change colour) I would notice it straight away.

Thanks.

[void]

Positioning and colorizing the status bar parts is still on my TODO list.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[harryray2]

Great, thank you.

[adamantine]

there are some related thoughts:
i always have the temp excludes option enabled. because it's too useful to be toggled or deactivated

my statusbar_temp_excludes= ini setting always has 0
(the big and empty TEMPEXCLUDE note brings me nothing good)
(another reason: it's good to have more horizontal space in status bar. this space is valuable)

 
usually my temp excludes window is empty. but sometimes it contains something
so a not very convenient situation may be present:
in such moments/minutes/hours i have to constantly keep in mind that some items are excluded
(especially because i don't have any info about them and their quantity in the ui)

i suppose that some improvement is possible here
this recent post contains a screenshot of my 5 status bars
(in 3 cases of 5) there i have the result count info (in the very start of status bar):
statusbar_format=#ifs:<#result-count:==0,0,#result-count:==1,1,#result-count:#gt:1,#TEXT:<#result-count:,#,###>>

example:
- there are 174 items in result list
- there are 25 items in the temp excludes window
thus i see the 174 note (in the very start of status bar)

what do you think about a new small option? an option that allows to have the following notes:
199                      (if there are no temp excludes)
174 (25)               (if there are 25 temp excludes)

 
another possible approach:
there may be something more interesting (instead of the unsightly TEMPEXCLUDE note) (in that place of status bar)

for instance, status bar may contain something like this:        (if there are no temp excludes)
199 ...                                    ...                                                                         case   whole word   path

and if there are 25 temp excludes:
174 ...                                    ...                                                      case   whole word   path   25 hidden
 

both approaches are probably not ideal but they both are rather good
(with their own advantages and disadvantages)
the approach-1 is generally slightly better (it occupies less amount of horizontal space) (and it's placed in more important left side of status bar)
the approach-2 is better in cases when an item is selected (then the info about excludes is still visible)

additional tiny ideas:
- left click on the 25 hidden area opens the temp excludes window
- right click on the 25 hidden area opens the menu that displays the recent 50 items that were excluded

[void]

what do you think about a new small option? an option that allows to have the following notes:
199 (if there are no temp excludes)
174 (25) (if there are 25 temp excludes)

I like the idea of showing the number of excluded items.
I will need to do some testing to check this doesn't hurt search performance.
Maybe an option to show 25 EXCLUDED instead of TEMPEXCLUDE.
EXCLUDED/TEMPEXCLUDE could be replaced with an icon.

- left click on the 25 hidden area opens the temp excludes window
- right click on the 25 hidden area opens the menu that displays the recent 50 items that were excluded

Currently, Alt + double click TEMPEXCLUDE will show all temporary excludes.

Consider renaming the TEMPEXCLUDE text to something short (eg: EXC) with localization_strings

Thank you for the suggestions.

[adamantine]

what about an adding of something like this?:      #excluded-count:

at the moment, it seems to be the simplest and elegant way

[void]

I would need to track exclude results which Everything is currently not doing.

I will consider tracking excluded results.
Thanks for the suggestion.