Status Bar Design

Overview

A single-row status bar is displayed at the bottom of the terminal window on all screens. It is always visible and provides authorship and branding information.

Location

The status bar occupies the last row of the terminal (area.height - 1). The usable body area (toolbar to status bar) is therefore area.height - 2 rows.

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐  ← row 0: toolbar
│                                     │
│           body content              │
│                                     │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘  ← last row: status bar

Content

rstype by Mark Veltzer <mark.veltzer@gmail.com>

Left-aligned
Padded with spaces to fill the full terminal width
No dynamic content — it never changes at runtime

Visual style

Property	Value
Background	`White`
Foreground	`Black`
Modifier	none

Matches the toolbar at the top — both are white bars, framing the black body in between. This gives the UI a consistent, symmetrical appearance.

Rationale

Branding — identifies the application and its author in any screenshot or recording.
Symmetry — the toolbar occupies the top row; a status bar at the bottom gives the UI a balanced, framed appearance common in terminal applications (vim, htop, etc.).
Static content — future versions could use the status bar to show transient messages (e.g. “Config saved”) without disrupting the main body layout, since the row is already reserved.