AvengeMedia / AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell
IPC calls to show & hide bar widgets
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- QML
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Description
## Feature Description
The settings entries for bar widgets have a show/hide (eye icon) button. It would be great to have this functionality via IPC.
```
dms ipc call widget show music
dms ipc call widget hide music
```
## Use Case
I want to use this with niri events, specifically `WindowFocusChanged`, to dynamically show or hide widgets based on the title/app-id of the focused window.
## Compositor
Is this feature specific to one compositor?
- [ ] All compositors
- [x] niri
- [ ] Hyprland
- [ ] dwl (MangoWC)
- [ ] sway
## Proposed Solution
I have only recently tried niri and DMS, so, I'm not familiar with the code base.
## Alternatives/Existing Solutions
I don't think there is a solution for this right now. Please let me know if I've missed something.
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names the widget settings eye-button behavior, the `dms ipc call widget show|hide ` entry points, and niri’s `WindowFocusChanged` event. Start by locating the existing IPC and niri event paths; done means the commands toggle the named widget and support the stated focus-change use case, with relevant tests updated or added.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100