Dynamic Bar Width or Text Rotation

[vinicius507]

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

I use 3 separate bars in my setup, one of them shows current song name being played on Spotify. Sometimes the song name + artist is bigger than the bar and it cuts the text.

Why does polybar need this feature?

It would give users a lot more customization power with their bars.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like if there were dynamic-labels with max-width set and/or dynamic width of the bar, set to fit-content.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've tried using zscroll but the installation fails. I've also tried implementing scripts to make the rotation but it'd break my spotify update metadata script.

[fmilani]

You can set the min and max width of a label:
https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Formatting#tokens

But I could't find a way to dynamically change the width of the bar. I am looking for a way to do it too

[Crylia]

This would be a really good feature, i'm currently missing that one hard since i as well have three bars.
Its really handy for dynamic workspaces so the bar gets smaller when you have less or bigger when you use the xwindow module

[joshpetit]

Yea I think this would be awesome for bars that you want to fit the size of the contents with. A good workaround is to set the bar's background to transparent (#00...), but this won't work if you want to have a radius or special padding on the module.