Show which viewport is focused during viewport switching

[vdegenne]

Though hard to implement I imagine, it would be nice to have an option to show a UI element on the screen with which viewport gets the focus when switching using assigned shortcut.

It's fine most of the time but sometimes when using too many viewports and switching a lot, memory gets lost and you have to find your way again, with a UI element it wouldn't happen because our memory has no problem keeping track of what is where, but a loss in relative orientation is what causes confusion while navigating.

[ammen99]

Maybe you are looking for the workspace-names plugin from wayfire-plugins-extra?

[soreau]

Maybe you're looking for something along the lines of this. Here's a video. It displays the other workspaces on the side and you can select them.

[killown]

He likely wants a plugin replicating an old GNOME Shell feature, workspace thumbnails on the right with an active workspace indicator. Mark it as "not planned" since probably no one won't build this...

[marcusbritanicus]

There is a similar feature in KDE/Plasma.. I am bad at explaining the feature, so here is the image.

This is something I have been wanting to implement.

Edit: Added a cropped image that shows the feature

[vdegenne]

@marcusbritanicus That's exactly what I had in mind yes, in the center of the screen is good too.

[ammen99]

This shouldn't be too hard to implement in a plugin. Requires something similar to workspace-names. The plugin could track plugin activation state changes (vswitch/vswipe) and display an overlay node to indicate what is going on.