Do you have a favorite status bar app? I have been using polybar since I switched to bspwm in December, and I've been really happy with all the customizations and plugins you can write for it, but I just wonder if anyone has been using any other bars that do something they really love.

Using sway's default currently. I tend to prefer on demand information to minimize distraction, so I keep it pretty sparse.

@SortOfTested

Yeah, I intentionally leave out cpu/mem info, as it'll just make me constantly beholden to it. Patching, audio, weather, and time. I've thought about adding other things, but as you say, it's all just distraction.

I've been using py3status with i3 for several years and added a bunch of custom script. Only reason I still use it is to avoid migrating scripts.

I have things like number of jira issues assigned with a pipe to rofi to search and open in firefox (minimize jira ui interactions), number of github pr waiting for my review with pipe to rofi, shortcuts to switch slack status, time tracker for my active uptime so I don't have to remember when I started working, etc.

@Kaivo

I freaking love rofi. It's a swiss army knife.

@Kaivo that jira script sounds awesome :D do you have a like to that stuff?

@Elendil

JIRA's API is pretty well documented. I recommend looking into it. It's pretty easy to write software that talks to it. I have heard a lot of complaints about JIRA, but from where I sit, it's great because of the programmatic access that's an INTENDED use case.

Maybe I will look into it then, the UI is kinda slow and convoluted in my experience so it would be nice to have desktop integration

@Elendil we built a small cli for our job that help with the sdlc. It's a one day job to have most of what you need. In js because there are libs for everything so you just need 50 lines of glue code and it works.