Ideas.

[ItsTerm1n4l]

As you asked for ideas :)
Could you include a way to set which GTK icon theme that should be used, in the config file.
Could you add a way to theme it (change the colours of the individual parts).
Could you make the menu nodes completely configurable, so that we can change what programs or scripts are included.
And most importantly please could you remove hyprland dependency so that this will be available for all wayland compositors, I have seen fly-pie before and loved the idea but it was limited to gnome and I couldn't actually find out more info on it.
I will keep an eye on this project and if you need testing on a Raspberry Pi or on the Wayfire compositor I will be happy to help. :)

[Schneegans]

Thanks a lot for these suggestions!

Could you include a way to set which GTK icon theme that should be used, in the config file.

There will be definitely icon themes. As the menu is cross-platform, I am not yet decided on the format of the icon theme. For now, it supports icon fonts only.

Could you add a way to theme it (change the colours of the individual parts).

Yep, there will be lots of customization options. Most likely via CSS.

Could you make the menu nodes completely configurable, so that we can change what programs or scripts are included.

Yes. This will be similar to the Fly-Pie GNOME extension.

And most importantly please could you remove hyprland dependency so that this will be available for all wayland compositors, I have seen fly-pie before and loved the idea but it was limited to gnome and I couldn't actually find out more info on it.

There is no Hyprland dependency. You can compile and run Kando on Windows and Linux. On Linux it supports GNOME, KDE, Budgie, Cinnamon, MATE, Hyprland, LXQt, XFCE, and probably others. It should work on most X11 based environments out-of-the box. For Wayland compositors custom backends are required. For now, I have written Wayland backends for GNOME, KDE, and Hyprland.

I will keep an eye on this project and if you need testing on a Raspberry Pi or on the Wayfire compositor I will be happy to help. :)

Wayfire would be cool!

[ItsTerm1n4l]

When I asked to remove the hyprland dependency I meant that at the moment your support for wayland compositors is based on compositor specific commands, so the hyprland backend will not work on sway, wayfire, weston, river, swayfx etc. I was asking if you could make it use wayland protocols so it would work with any wayland compositor :), however after doing a bit of research I see your problem, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this other than compositor-specific commands.

[Schneegans]

Yeah, that's a pity. Currently, Kando backends have to support five things:

1. Get the current mouse pointer position.
2. Get the name and class of the focused application.
3. Register global hotkeys.
4. Simulate virtual mouse movement events.
5. Simulate virtual keyboard events.

4 and 5 I managed to implement with a wlroots Wayland protocol, so this should work on many compositors now. However, for 1, 2, and 3, I need custom solutions. So if a compositor supports this in any way, it will be possible to create a backend for it!

[Vinnyboiler]

I have a few idea based on how I currently use Fly-Pie alongside other tools.

1. Detection of current active window. Allows for program specific actions to be mapped to the same shortcut.
2. Mapping touchpad gestures to open menus.

I also appreciated the touch buttons from Fly-Pie but understand that not immediately being a development goal. Thank you for the work you are doing with Kando, I appreciate the effort you are putting in to make this type of implementation work.

[Schneegans]

Hi there!

Application-dependent menus will be a core feature of Kando. Usually, you'll only have one or maybe two hot keys configured, and the menu which opens depends on the application which currently has input focus.

Mapping touchpad gestures is not yet planned. They will be impossible to capture globally in a platform-independent manner. At some point, I can check whether it would be possible to implement this for each backend, but for now it will be easier to rely on third-party tools, I think.

Also the touch buttons will be difficult to implement. Maybe it could be possible to open sticky always-on-top windows for this. Is it possible to have a circular windows on Wayland? I don't think so. But maybe square-shaped touch buttons would be sufficient as well...

[ItsTerm1n4l]

If you are using a wayland WM that supports rounded corners, surely you could create a small window with the border radius set to 50 or something, very janky but if you absolutely need it...