Re: Proportional fonts in the mode line (one month test)

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 06:05, Kévin Le Gouguec
<kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to double down on the min-width specs, i.e. set the
> min-width of each individual piece of "the U:---" thing to something
> large enough to be clickable, despite the indicator char being narrow?

This is exactly how any other application would approach this. We have
five orthogonal properties — so put five fixed width buttons. Assign
an icon or a Unicode emoji/dingbat to each state and arrange for them
to fit the button interior size.