I suggest to make it possible to show additional status bar, maybe multiline by design (similar to button bar), and placed either as new line(s) of current status bar, or below Fx buttons. Information provided by such bar should be cuztomizable, so I suggest following features for it:
a) such status bar could have either a separated between panels look (like current status bar below panels) or to be as a single bar - maybe this could be configurable, even for each line of such status bar;
b) TC could provide additional status info to that bar which it currently doesn't show in any way, like info that QuickView is busy when opening file via plugin, "re-reading process" status when returning to TC with large opened directory, or expanding a tree, progress of making many folders with F7 etc... - currently sometimes such ongoing actions don't have any indication to user. I think TC can provide much more information it currently doesn't show on existing status bar, of course it may be not only status of many additional actions.
c) in addition to own info, TC could allow to place the fields with info provided by wdx plugins on such status bar.
d) it would be even more useful if for fields on such status bar to enable possibility to select and copy text.
