feat(workspace): Allow showing workspaces from all monitors#2479
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- Add "Show all workspaces" option, which enables drawing all workspaces, rather than only from screen where the bar is located. - Add alpha effect to workspaces from other screens to distinguish them. - Alpha effect stacks with another alpha effects (currently only alpha for empty workspace). - Consistent with "Follow focused screen" option. When it is active, alpha effect is applied to workspaces from all screens except focused one. - Add translation to en, en-GB and ru.
- Add new option to workspace bar widget settings. Setting this to true is legacy behavior, when active workspaces' pill will be of the same size as focused workspace's pill. When set to false, only focused workspace will be drawn with wide/high pill. - Add translation to en, en-GB and ru.
- Now it uses focusColor instead of mPrimary for consistent look. - For workspaces from another screen effect is with alpha=0.6. - Thus effect color is the same as the pill color.
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Pull Request
Motivation
It might be useful for some users to see all workspaces on each bar instance, for example, to estimate how much workspaces is left and which are currently empty and can be used for new windows.
This PR introduce configuration option "Show all workspaces" which acts similar to waybar's
all-outputs. If set to true, it will show all workspaces on each bar, even if they are from another screen.Such setting turned on requires quite a lot of space, so this PR also add "Large active workspaces" knob. If set to true, active workspaces (there is one for each monitor) are shown with larger pill, as it was before. If set to false, only focused workspace will have a large pill, so some space will be saved.
Also, this PR fixes color issue with ripple effect on focus switch. Previously, primary color was used for this effect. After this PR color of the effect matches color of focused workspace (as it was, presumably, intended).
Type of Change
Mark the relevant option with an "x".
Testing
Tested on hyprland with my usual workflow. It plays well with either vertical and horizontal bar, "Follow focused screen" option, "Show applications" (when hovered, show workspace badge). All configuration variants were briefly examined and no inconsistency or problems were found.
Screenshots / Videos
Following are from 3 monitor setup. Workspace 5 is empty WS on first monitor, WS 1,2,4,6 are on second monitor, WS 3,8 are on third one. All screenshots are from 2nd monitor. If Follow focused monitor = true, then same is on the other two bars.
Show applications = false, Show all workspaces = true, Large active workspaces = true
Show applications = true
Show applications = false, Show all workspaces = true, Large active workspaces = false
Checklist
Additional Notes
I have found only "use lefthook" guideline in contributing section, so I am a little bit confused what to mark in Checklist. Will be glad to fix styling issues if any.