I'd love a D9 bulldozer because I would be able to drive it straight through a block of flats. Does that mean I actually want the bulldozer for that purpose though? Apart from stating that he wanted $identifier support the user never stated what purpose he actually wanted the status bar to do.
I disagree with the prospect of being able to issue commands from status bar as that is what the toolbar is for, perhaps extra buttons could be added there, as there is already spare space for this, which could be user-configurable from the options dialogue. I would find this handy and it wouldn't gulp up the space occupied by the room windows/nick listbox in the process.
As for the traditional role of the status bar I have looked at other programmes, the most recent being Bersirc and its status bar shows of all things the time, the network, the active channel, the nickname and it repeats the [email]user@host[/email] of chatters when you hover over it which is bloody useless because no-one ever uses their fairdinkum email address there anyway.
Still, if a status bar is for you, far be it from me to hold back the idea.
