[mu4e rfe] Ability to disable the global mode-line tweaks

[nbarrientos]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Whereas I enjoy having some segments in the mode-line of the headers buffer I'd rather mu4e to not to maintain any "global mode-line". This is because I have my own new mail indicators already. I checked in the manual (sections 13.2.x) and it does not seem possible to disable the global mode-line. It'd be nice if this was configurable.

Describe the solution you'd like

A defcustom in mu4e-modeline.el to prevent mu4e from touching the global mode-line.

[djcb]

I won't be working on this, but if you have very small change to mu4e-modeline to this, we can consider it.

[nbarrientos]

Would you be happy with simply not registering it during mu4e--start?

@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ defun mu4e--start
     (add-hook 'mu4e-query-items-updated-hook #'mu4e--notification))
   ;; modeline support
   (when mu4e-modeline-support
-    (mu4e--modeline-register #'mu4e--bookmarks-modeline-item 'global)
+    (when mu4e-modeline-global
+      (mu4e--modeline-register #'mu4e--bookmarks-modeline-item 'global))
     (mu4e-modeline-mode)
     (add-hook 'mu4e-query-items-updated-hook #'mu4e--modeline-update))
   (mu4e-modeline-mode (if mu4e-modeline-support 1 -1))

The patch would be the hunk above, the new defcustom in mu4e-modeline (default t) and a line in the documentation in section 13.2 explaining that the global mode-line can be disabled.

[djcb]

Sure, thanks, guess that should work. Did you test it? :-)

[nbarrientos]

Sure, thanks, guess that should work. Did you test it? :-)

Thanks. I've decided to take another (better, IMO) path, please take a look at the PR. The order of magnitude of the patch hasn't changed much 😄