Scrolling while hovering

[diogox]

When scrolling down and the mouse is on top of some previous result, the currently selected result will keep going back to the one being hovered.

Is there any way to "disable" hovering while scrolling until the mouse moves again?

[friday]

Hey @diogox 👋 I wanted to shout out since I've seen your Ulauncher rewrite attempts and tried to do my own before I ended up maintaining Ulauncher instead (you got a lot further on your attempts though).

I think Python is not a great language for making GTK apps, but GTK also isn't a great toolkit for making a launcher today, with GTK4 having removed APIs that don't work for Wayland, so you'd have to make a Gnome Shell extension to cover up for all that's missing (which is quite a lot), and that obviously only works for Gnome. It's not hard to see why projects like are rarely successful, even if many of us want to improve the launcher experience.

Anyway, I found this issue and I might have the answer since I had the same issue when implementing scrollling for Ulauncher: When EventCrossing.time was 0 it meant that the mouse was not moving, but the result behind it scrolled. It felt like a bit of a hack, but it was the only thing I could find. I don't know if this applies to your implementation, but just putting it here in case you ever want to pick things up.

[diogox]

Hi @friday!

Thanks for the suggestion :)

I don't think I'll be picking this project back up as I've since moved away from this type of launcher, and now use dmenu with some very specific hotkey-triggered scripts.

This was a fun project though, and I actually ended up talking about it in my bachelor's thesis.

I started this project mostly because Ulauncher didn't allow for language agnostic plugins (due to using pickle for serialization iirc), but I kept the websocket approach. If I was starting it again today I'd use Wasm for the plugins. I don't know what the current state of Ulauncher is, but I'll leave you that suggestion as well 😄

Wish you and the Ulauncher project the best of luck! Even though I'm not using it anymore, I still think it's a great tool!

[friday]

I remember you created that issue in the repo :) I actually moved it to a discussion not long ago because imo it's out of scope with what we can realistically do with the current code base, and it'd be better to start from scratch if you want to make big fundamental changes.

I actually have been looking at WASI for extensions already, as one of two solutions (and the one I like the most). It also solves some security concerns. Not a lot of time to work on this ATM though. I mostly checked in here because someone else showed interest in doing a Rust rewrite, and it reminded me of your rewrites.