Feedback on recent windowrulev2 and blur syntax changes

[hettorr]

Hello. First of all I want to say that I appreciate the work you put in Hyprland and I use it as a daily driver. But recent updates are just crushing my config for windowrules. First it was windowrules, layerrules and I fixed it all, they're working. Now I have an issue with windowrulev2. The problem is that even if I read the wiki for the correct syntax - it doesn't work. Doesn't work almost for everything. I deleted some rules because I spent an hour debugging and came to nothing but then it came to my rules.conf and here I'm frustrated.

Issue:

Before the update I used the structure

$center-float-large = class:^(........
windowrulev2 = float, $center-float-large

I used it to make my code shorter. Now it seems like I can't create variables at all and need to type everything manually.

Also another problem is that with new update instead of leaving the old syntax and adding the new one - you completely erase the old one with new and I have to fix my code every time you do it.

I really want you guys to read this message and, at least, add the old syntax to the new one because I have a really big rice and god knows how many hours I'll have to fix it if the updates will come this way each time(I have my own duties, y'know?).

Hope you'll spend some of your time to reply to this message.

Best regards,
Hettorr.

[ItsOhen]

First of all, windowrulev2 was deprecated almost a year ago.
All it did up until now was to send it to windowrule and call it a day.

Second, variables are fine, you just have to use the correct windowrule syntax.

$var = match:class <thing>
windowrule = float on, $var

But you don't even need to do that, since you only need to match once and put in all the other things you want. Like:

windowrule = match:class <thing>, float on, center on, size 1000 1000, move (monitor_w-1000) (monitor_h-1000)

or:

windowrule {
 name = thingrule
 match:class = <thing>
 float = on
 center = on
 ...
}

And third, the latest update only informs you that your rule was bad while from 0.53.0 up until now windowrulev2 would just fail silently and never actually do anything.

And finally: I made a converter so you don't have to do it manually.
https://itsohen.github.io/hyprrulefix/
You do have to update your variables to the new syntax though, since it's impossible for the converter to figure out what the variable is actually doing.

[hettorr]

Thank you very much for your time. It helped a lot. I actually wrote this whole config a year ago and it worked well up until now. For now I'll stick to downgrading but I will rewrite my config in another file, then update and stick it all together

[ItsOhen]

If you send your problematic rules.conf i could rewrite it in about a minute flat.

[hettorr]

rules.zip
Here's the file

[ItsOhen]

Guess it did have some problems with match and variables.. That's good to know.
Other than that, the converter worked fine.
So here you are:

rules.txt