- animated!
- scrolling background
- two-tone patterns
- album art/picture collage?
- marquee text
- scrolling background
- piecewise text region fill
- config-based sections, noting position/width/align/etc
- prefab text, things like time/desktop number/window title
- script-based text, call a script which emits lines a la other bars
- notification animation
- push events through socket/helper prog/localhost http/???
- expando windows for notification text/calendar/etc
- libnotify notification server
- application launcher?