After a long period with Polybar, I tried Eww for 3 months.
The features and the visual results are impressive. I wrote 400 lines of configuration and about ten scripts for it but in the end the instability chilled me.
Sometimes tooltips refuse to display, windows open in duplicate or refuse to close, the logs indicate json errors without any apparent reasons or consequences.
I will come back to see the progress in a few months.
Since then I tried i3status-rust, there are less possibilities visually but the same interactive features and its really fast stable.
Disappointed this isn't related to `M-x eww`.
Just picked this up the other day! So far it's been awesome. I've assembled a basic pair of bars with the usual suspects and it's been smooth sailing
Superficially, this looks quite similar to conky. Can anyone comment on similarities/differences? (other than "written in rust")
How is MacOS compatibility? Or is there something similar for Mac?
Quite impressive visually. I think I'll give this a try.
Does this work with any desktop environment?
Does it have a rich text editor field?
I saw this pop up yesterday on the unfortunately named https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ – a subreddit well worth checking out if you want some inspiration around styling your desktop. Lots of interesting tools pop up in the comments I'd never heard of before.
(Edit: The reason I say it's 'unfortunately' named is that not everyone has the privilege to load pages containing terms like 'porn' without the risk of trouble in their workplace, country, or otherwise. I have no problem with the name personally, and it's a fantastic sub and Discord.)
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Something notable about eww is that it's configured in a lisp language, as opposed to a more traditional XML and CSS: https://elkowar.github.io/eww/configuration.html