One thing I find interesting in the way I build my desktop I have noticed recently is that i try to cram everything in one status bar, which becomes unbearably big. That's not how modern desktops do things anymore, and there's a good reason: they pop up notifications based on actions. For example, you change the volume, you get a little slider/progress bar that relays the current state.
This is something that's not well supported in Wayland right now, or at least not in Sway, as far as I am concerned.
There's a bunch of options for this:
- sway-notification-center kind of does this, but you'd need to wire up a keyboard short cut to pop it open and then keep it open while you push the backlight, might not work at all, and more designed for mouse-driven users
- SwayOSD and Avizo are smaller and simpler, and just pop the notification, but they also to wrap around the keyboard shortcut to show the notification
There doesn't seem to be, in other words, something that just sits there and monitors for state changes and relays them in an overlay right now.
One thing I find interesting in the way I build my desktop I have noticed recently is that i try to cram everything in one status bar, which becomes unbearably big. That's not how modern desktops do things anymore, and there's a good reason: they pop up notifications based on actions. For example, you change the volume, you get a little slider/progress bar that relays the current state.
This is something that's not well supported in Wayland right now, or at least not in Sway, as far as I am concerned.
There's a bunch of options for this:
There doesn't seem to be, in other words, something that just sits there and monitors for state changes and relays them in an overlay right now.