[Feature] Window hints!

[NNBnh]

_{I have been using Wayfire for a month now and I must say after hooping through many WM, this is probably the best floating WM. Thank you for the awesome project!}

This feature was inspired by Link Hints, Vimium, Easymotion. It's function pretty much the same as Scale, but when it's toggled on:

• It show a small hints box in the bottom of each windows.
• If the user press a key or a set of keys match the hint of a window, the user will focus to that windows.
• If the user press Esc, the user will just focus back to the current window.
• If the user press the [window hints] toggle key again, the user will focus on the last focused window (this make switching back and forth two windows easily).
• The windows will be displayed in grid, group by class.

With this feature user will no longer need to cycle windows or make 4 to 5 keypress just to switch to a specific window, instead they can just need to make 2-3 keypress which improve the speed significantly.

[eMorph]

This would be cool except for the fact that "window hints" means something else.

[keshto]

I believe what you mean is link hints. Right now scale plugin allows you to select different windows via arrow keys. Maybe a searchbox that allows you to filter the different windows would get you the search functionality you want.

[soreau]

I believe what you mean is link hints. Right now scale plugin allows you to select different windows via arrow keys. Maybe a searchbox that allows you to filter the different windows would get you the search functionality you want.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the scale title filter plugin provides this functionality.

[keshto]

Totally my bad. I haven't used wayfire for a long time. Thanks for pointing that out.

On February 9, 2022 2:49:28 AM UTC, Scott Moreau @.***> wrote:

I believe what you mean is link hints. Right now scale plugin allows you to select different windows via arrow keys. Maybe a searchbox that allows you to filter the different windows would get you the search functionality you want.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the scale title filter plugin provides this functionality.

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[ammen99]

Looking at this again, yes, the scale-title-filter plugin already has something of the sort. And if you want some custom navigation, I guess you could write a scale addon (similar to how scale-title-filter works).