[Suggestion] App switcher

[System64fumo]

I would love to see something like an app switcher like the ones found on mobile oses.

Example

Desired behavior

• Swipe up (From the bottom edge) to enter the switcher, Cannot enter switcher unless there are 2 or more workspaces.
• Tap on a workspace to exit the switcher.
• Ability to scroll/slide between workspaces.
• Swipe up on a toplevel to close it
• Swipe down on a workspace to close every toplevel in it (Optional)

Differences from hyprexpo

Hyprexpo has a static grid, This should be dynamic & scrollable.
Hyprexpo shows the wallpaper in every workspace, This should only show the toplevels in a workspace.

Final thoughts

I understand that all of this might be too much to ask for and that you might not have the time nor motivation to work on such big of a task.
I'd happily donate if it motivates you or helps in any way.

[horriblename]

definitely out of scope for this project, but I'll think about it as a separate plugin

[System64fumo]

Awesome!
Please keep me updated 🤙

[horriblename]

hyprspace might interest you

[System64fumo]

@horriblename it does, Do you think you could possibly add touchscreen compatibility to it? (Ie make it compatible with hyprgrass?)

[horriblename]

can you elaborate? I haven't tried it but it does seem to have some basic touch support

[System64fumo]

I've tried it but couldn't get it working with touch yet (known issue)
The switcher can be configured almost the way that i want
As for the touch gesture support
I would love for it to integrate with hyprgrass's edge swipe feature

In other words
I'd like it to behave like mobile OS-es do
Swipe up to trigger the switcher
Swipe left or right to switch workspaces

[horriblename]

I've put up a fix for touch screen crashing

• switching workspace with hyprgrass gestures should just work in hyprspace

• you can toggle hyprspace with their dispatcher, hence:

  # untested
  hyprgrass-bind = , edge:d:u, overview:toggle 
  

• I might add another PR to get window dragging working with touch in hyprspace

[System64fumo]

Awesome work!

Regarding the dispatcher though..
I was kind of hoping to avoid doing that
I was looking for something seemless (Like with a trackpad for instance)

[horriblename]

well it's not impossible... I just don't know if it's a good idea. I'll cook something up

[System64fumo]

Likely a terrible idea

There are like 2 ways of going about doing this
1: Support this behavior from hyprspace (Copy bottom gesture code from hyprgrass to hyprspace)
2: Support this behavior from hyprgrass (Copy workspace preview code from hyprspace to hyprgrass)

[smathles]

Keen to see where this goes. The lack of touchscreen functionality with hyprspace is a bit painful atm.

I get it though if it's not exactly the intended scope of hyprgrass though lol, wrong plugin.

[System64fumo]

Yeah hope either the desired functionality gets added to hyprspace or horriblename starts their own plugin (Or adds support for this to hyprgrass)

[horriblename]

waiting for #174

TL;DR hyprgrass will be exposing hooks so that other plugins can have hyprgrass integration

[System64fumo]

Oh that would be incredible!
Good work!!

[horriblename]

with #189 you can now emulate touchpad swipes. Not exactly the integration I promised, but it works pretty nicely with hyprspace.

the event hooks I talked about is currently being re-thought

[System64fumo]

Whoops forgot to reply to this, Amazing work!

Bit offtopic but i've noticed you're looking for on screen keyboards?
Could i interest you with my own?
https://github.com/System64fumo/sysboard