"Show" Pop up menu at bottom of page

A modest request...
right now I have the little pop-up menu at the bottom of my Illustrator window set to show me the phase of the moon, which is right now the most useful of the options for my workflow.
But, what I'd really like it to show is the name of the file I'm working on.
I like to maximize my image real-estate ('f' key x3) but one of the things that gets lost is the title bar of the file. I'm often working with a bunch of very similar files, six or seven instances based on the same template, and I want to be able to see exactly which file I'm working on at a glance, without having to go to a menu, or hit 'save as' then cancel, just to know which file I'm working on.
Believe me, for what I am doing, this would save me some time.

>I'd like:
File Size
Document Color Mode (not profile)
Total anchor points
Number of objects
selected objects color value
File Size: I hardly find that relevant. Large image increase file size, until the size causes a save delay, then I turn off PDF compatibility. Size of file is about the least signifact piece of information for me.
Document Color Mode: That rarely changes for me. I'll start a file in the appropriate mode and leave it there. As I'm familiar with the job, I don't need to check that.
Total anchore points: In selection, useful. In file, pointless.
Selected object's color value: Good idea. There are only five places to look that up now (but only one that can potentially show the full breakdown).
I agree with Beau that Filename would be a useful addition. Probably be easy to add. So, I give it a 1% chance of appearing in 14 or 15.
Which is not to say that other pieces of information are not worthy, just that they aren't to me.

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    more about js menus here:
    http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php
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    > Thank you for replying.
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    >
    > [email protected]
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    "Moni057" <[email protected]> wrote in
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    >
    > [email protected]
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