In which cases would fake statusbar be used?

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Hi all,

The title might sound super odd.

What I meant was I've seen some oUF layouts building a custom texture widget on top of the statusbar instead of directly setting a texture to frame itself.

I have an old example from zork, oUF_Doom, which does this to create a horizontally flipped unitframe for target. But my question is what other reasons would be there to do so?

At first, I thought it was to apply those non-rectangular shaped art on unitframe, but my parallelogram shaped texture did work perfectly well on statusbar object, directly.

Any ideas, please?

Thank you!