Suggestion: Make modal font and text alignment configurable

[kgrossjo]

• Version: 2.4 (55)
• macOS: Sierra 10.12.2

Wouldn't it be nice if the font of the modal was configurable? (I would select a monospaced font so that I can do ASCII graphics.)

Wouldn't it be nice if I could specify left-aligned text (instead of centered text)?

More specifically, my configuration includes a window selector, and I would like to draw a diagram like this:

> blabla
 \--^---/

    My bla bla window
==> Another window with a lot of blah blah <==
    A third window blabla it also matches

The first line has a filter, and the second line is a crude visualization of the cursor (caret), so that users can see where it is.

The last three lines show windows, the middle one is selected as indicated by this crude arrow. And all of this can be achieved just by supporting a monospaced font! :-)

[kasper]

Haha, you really seem to push the limits! I’ll see what I can do.

[kgrossjo]

I confess that I have longed for a way to do little GUI widgets in Phoenix, but oh, well, maybe just faking it with some text will work, as well.

[mafredri]

I must also confess, I have also experimented with aligning text in the modals, but without a monospaced font, it's quite challenging 😄 .

[AlexGustafsson]

Is this feature being considered for any near-future release?

[kasper]

@AlexGustafsson Should be relatively simple to do, I’ll try to add it to some near-future release. Thanks for the patience.

[kasper]

I added support to configure the font in the modals. I still need to evaluate the alignment part.

[kasper]

Support for text alignment has been added.