Sugestions/Wants

[DrGeor]

Hi Simon,

I have been following the progress of kando, and am loving it. You truly are creating something great!

I currently use fly-pie as the front-end for my work pc which is linux obviously, and it is used with mouse/keyboard and game controller. It works beautifully for me, and the cross-platform nature of kando will mean it will be the frontend for all of my systems. I only use windows for gaming (I hate windows with a passion, but it is a necessary evil unfortunately)

For it to be the frontend for all of my systems, I will happily make a monthly donation as would be appropriate for such an important piece of software.

I have some suggestions/wants and wonder if you could comment on each as to whether it is planned or not, possible or not, or never will be implemented.

Here is a screenshot of my current fly-pie menu:-

And my ideal would be the following:-

I am a photographer and I want my home screen to be an image only, as simple as possible.

So, questions are:-

1. Will you be implementing scaling of menus for 4k screens as fly-pie can do already?
2. Backgrounds of icons and traces to be transparent/configurable, as fly-pie can already do?
3. kando settings icon in the bottom right hand corner and the tutorial icon in top left hand corner to be configurable i.e. turn off the icons and open settings from somewhere else....maybe a pie?
4. I currently use a gnome-extension to show a clock on the screen, but would like a widget or something to be able to show a clock only when the kando menu is visible. I remember gnome-pie had the ability to show an animated clock in the centre. This could also be used for other widgets, to show previews etc. Is this possible, or too much work, or not something you are interested in implementing?

As I said, I love your work. I hope you can continue with this as a passion project, and I am sure you will be suitably remunerated, both financially and personally.

Keep up the great work.

DrGeor

[Schneegans]

Hi there! Thank you very much for the very kind words. Let's have look at your points:

Will you be implementing scaling of menus for 4k screens as fly-pie can do already?

Yes. Could you open a feature request for that? So we do not forget about it 😄. This is already somewhat possible by pressing Ctrl+Shift++. However, once scaled, the menu does not open at the pointer anymore. Use Ctrl+0 to reset the scale.

Backgrounds of icons and traces to be transparent/configurable, as fly-pie can already do?

Yes. There will be custom themes, maybe already in the next version.

Kando settings icon in the bottom right hand corner and the tutorial icon in top left hand corner to be configurable i.e. turn off the icons and open settings from somewhere else....maybe a pie?

See #419 😉

I currently use a gnome-extension to show a clock on the screen, but would like a widget or something to be able to show a clock only when the kando menu is visible. I remember gnome-pie had the ability to show an animated clock in the centre. This could also be used for other widgets, to show previews etc. Is this possible, or too much work, or not something you are interested in implementing?

Maybe? The clock functionality of Gnome-Pie was pretty cool. Maybe we could add this to Kando as well. If so, it would be part of a theme, I guess. I doubt that this can be done with pure CSS, but maybe themes will require more than CSS anyways...

[DrGeor]

Hi Simon,

Hope all is well. I know you are a very busy man, so please ignore this if you have more important things to do.

I have managed to acheive a clock in fly-pie menu centre as shown below.

I have created a bash script that runs on startup in the background and updates the clock every minute...code as follows:-
#!/bin/bash while :; do dconf read /org/gnome/shell/extensions/flypie/menu-configuration > "./fp.json" time_date=" "$(date +%R)" "$(date +%b)" "$(date +%d) sed -i "s/\"StarMenu\",\"icon\":\" ..... ... ..\"/\"StarMenu\",\"icon\":\"$time_date\"/" "./fp.json" dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/flypie/menu-configuration "cat ./fp.json" sleep $((60 - $(date +%S))) done

This works well for me, but please let me know if you can see problems with this eg. bad code, high resource usage etc

Would this be something I could use in Kando?

Thanks

[Schneegans]

This is very clever!

A similar approach should be possible with Kando as well. The menu settings are stored in a JSON file and are automatically reloaded at runtime. So yes, this should work as well!