Add support for hiding empty workspaces between used workspaces

[Daniel-42-z]

Probably like most people switching from gnome, I don't care about workspace numbers and always put new windows to the right of the current workspace, so when I close all windows in a previous workspace I like that workspace to be completely hidden. The waybar workspaces module and hyprswitch both does this, but in hyprtasking all the empty workspaces will be shown which wastes a lot of screen space. Can you add an option in the config to hide all empty workspaces?

This is how hyprswitch looks like with workspace 1 and 3 used but 2 empty:

[raybbian]

Yeah definitely. How would you imagine the other screen space being used? Transparency?

[Daniel-42-z]

Yeah definitely. How would you imagine the other screen space being used? Transparency?

Do you mean the empty workspaces between used ones? Maybe just not show them at all and only show workspaces that are being used.

[raybbian]

er, I mean more of "what do I put on the screen right there instead of the workspace". just the background color?

[Daniel-42-z]

er, I mean more of "what do I put on the screen right there instead of the workspace". just the background color?

Probably just don't put anything and move all non-empty workspaces after it one unit forward (that's how gnome does it). For example if workspace 1 and 3 are used, hyprtasking should display:
1 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 Empty

For the empty part probably display a wallpaper like how empty workspaces are currently shown

[ninetailedtori]

I mean once you get the background fixed up, or perhaps pulled from a .config/hyprtasking config file, you'd have a background for hyprtasking zoomout, and then you could just do what Daniel said, just omit the unused ones and sort the remaining workspaces chronologically (though you'll have to keep in mind multimonitor workspace binds too of course - perhaps using the vdesktop solution could potentially solve that trouble for multimonitor though?)

[raybbian]

Hey, I've just pushed a linear overview layout if you'd like to give that a try.

I also have plans to make another minimap style layout, similar to that of hyprswitch but with some additional quirks (e.g. grouping workspaces into columns, and moving between rows + cols, etc.)

[Daniel-42-z]

Hey, I've just pushed a linear overview layout if you'd like to give that a try.

I also have plans to make another minimap style layout, similar to that of hyprswitch but with some additional quirks (e.g. grouping workspaces into columns, and moving between rows + cols, etc.)

Thanks, this is working as expected. However if I want to view lots of workspaces on a linear view the workspaces need to be very small and it will be hard to drag windows between them. Is there also a way to make the workspace line scrollable?

[ninetailedtori]

Hey, I've just pushed a linear overview layout if you'd like to give that a try.

I also have plans to make another minimap style layout, similar to that of hyprswitch but with some additional quirks (e.g. grouping workspaces into columns, and moving between rows + cols, etc.)

Given hyprexpo rn is hard crashing when I use the toggle feature to zoom back into a workspace, it almost feels like fate that I should shift it back to hyprtasking 😄

[raybbian]

Is there also a way to make the workspace line scrollable?

Yep, that should be a quick addition when I get to it

[raybbian]

Added scrolling 👍

[Daniel-42-z]

Added scrolling 👍

I updated but scrolling scrolls the window I'm currently focused on instead of the workspace list. For more info, I scroll with touchpad and launch hyprtasking with fusuma's 3-finger swipe up.

[raybbian]

Hey, it should work with touchpad scrolling now.

[Daniel-42-z]

Hey, it should work with touchpad scrolling now.

Just updated and it works