A way to launch fuzzel while typing in overview

[marcinjahn]

The new overview mode is a great addition to the experience. Personally, I like the minimalism of Gnome where they actually merged the Overview and Launcher experience into one.
What do you think about allowing fuzzel (or another launcher`) to be invoked when one starts typing in the Overview?
If not something provided by Niri, what would be the easiest way to implement it? The only way coming to my mind would be some background script constantly running, checking if overview is enabled, and launching fuzzel for any key press other than niri command. It seems a bit too hacky, and I feel like Niri should allow to bind some action for typing in Overview.

[YaLTeR]

I intentionally avoided any hardcoded letter binds in the overview with some kind of typing use-case in mind but so far I don't have an easy answer for this. Also even if you run fuzzel on typed letter, it won't get the first letter, which is annoying

[marcinjahn]

yep, the mechanism would have to register the first keypress, and launch fuzzel with this character as prefilled input. Which would make it a bit too tightly coupled with fuzzel, but maybe it's alright, looking at how fuzzel comes installed together with niri.

[shaplyd]

It would be nice to have a generic solution that works with any launcher. The gnome experience is very fluid and intuitive.

[Sempyos]

We are a compositor, not a desktop environment such as Gnome. This is why we have the IPC so you can do such

[shaplyd]

I suppose this would then be the job of some kind of graphical shell project like DankMaterialShell

[Fireye04]

We could keep this simple and just trigger an optional spawn command on overview entrance. That way people can just run up whatever launcher they want. Even if it were more tightly integrated, I'd imagine you'd still need a listener to be run up at the same trigger anyway.