Dropdown Config?

[ddewar]

Hey, loving what you have going here. Is there plans to add dropdown configuration? (Calendar, Notification, Weather, Dashborad, etc) It was one of my favorite parts of Hyprpanel!

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Hey there! What types of configuration are you looking for? The philosophy of this project will shift a bit and I can explain that a bit here. Essentially, an issue that I discovered as HyprPanel grew was that it had too much configuration in it's settings menu. Essentially polluting the config section with settings that most users just would not touch. Making the more useful configurations get buried and overwhelming users.

The goal with Wayle is to provide most useful settings exposed via the config.toml/GUI and leave more granular tweaking via css. Of course this means I'll have to document class names and structure of elements but the idea is that if you want "high value" config changes, that'll be exposed as settings. If you want more niche and granular customization, you'll have the ability to do that through the scss. This way we can balance cognitive complexity of the configuration system vs granularity. If that makes sense.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

BTW, that is not to say dropdown configs are not supported. Some dropdowns already have some config settings.

[ddewar]

That makes total sense. And I get that that over configed feeling. My big thing is some of the menus, like the dashboard, have some settings that are not as useful for my desktop vs laptop and things like that. In hyprpanel I had made a custom quick action I kept in the dashboard for rebooting into Windows.

What about registering custom ones instead? I have no issues copying the concept of the dashboard menu and making my own. Just thinking through how I want to approach things in the future. Overall, I think you have a great thing going here.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

Is your request to have some mechanism of defining custom 'shortcuts' like hyprpanel for which you could configure the commands, name and icon?

[ddewar]

Request is a heavy word here :) I'm more just asking about plans around it, so I know what to expect. I love what you're creating and am very happy with it!

That being said, yes, something like the ability to define the shortcuts, or what buttons appear in the power/pc stats/network/quick actions would be helpful for all those things I don't want to create custom bar modules for just so I can have them.

[Jas-SinghFSU]

I've been thinking about making the dashboard multi-tab so you can have the first-glance view (current dashboard), and then tabs to see your other utilities. Like a shortcuts tab, a utilities tab, etc. Still playing around with that idea in my head, just don't know how I want to execute it so it fits properly rather than feeling tacked on.