Crazy Feature Request: Expand pane on hover
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Hello! First off, thank you for building hyper! I love it and use it every day. I have kind of a crazy idea, feel free to disregard...
I generally have a layout like the following, maximized on my laptop display (15" MBP), while I use a monitor for my editor/browser/etc.
+-------------+-------------+
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| +-------------+
| | |
| +-------------+
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| +-------------+
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+-------------+-------------+
I have my working terminal on the left, and four running server/build processes on the right. It works great, but it's a little cramped. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to hover over a pane and have it expand a little, so I could see more of the pane without having to manually expand it.
For example, if I hover over the left pane it would do this:
+-----------------+---------+
| | |
| +---------+
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| +---------+
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| +---------+
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+-----------------+---------+
And if I hover over the right top pane, it would do this (though maybe the compressed panes below would be evenly spaced):
+---------+-----------------+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| +-----------------+
| | |
| +-----------------+
| +-----------------+
+---------+-----------------+
Moving the mouse out of the window would restore the original layout:
+-------------+-------------+
| | |
| +-------------+
| | |
| +-------------+
| | |
| +-------------+
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+-------------+-------------+
Would anybody else find this useful?
Cheers,
Andrew
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No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the existing pane layout and pointer-hover handling, then clarify the expansion behavior and layout rules with maintainers; done means an agreed interaction is implemented and its original layout is restored when the pointer leaves the window.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100