z-bar-qt/plans/ideas.md

Ideas/Features

• Change volume for $BROWSER environment variable? Most general media source apart from separate music/video players.

Stupid idea's from Daivin

• An on screen pencil to draw on your screen :).
• Bluetooth device battery view -- Not planned ( Don't have a bluetooth receiver )

Completed features

• Auto hide unless on mouse hover. Also implement bar changes to mute/volume to show notif or show bar for a couple seconds.
• Maybe already possible; have keybinds to show certain menus. I do not want to touch my mouse to see notifications for example. Not everything in the bar needs this, but some would be good to have.
• Pressing ESC or some obvious button to close nc.
• Another branch for development, hold off big changes so that a working bar or if there are big config changes.
• Media showing; what song/media is playing?
• Brightness control for Laptops.
• Battery icon for Laptops. Broken?
• Quick toggle for BT, WiFi (modules in the tray do this too)
• Update module: When there is 1 package it still looks extremely off
• Audio module + cava / audio wave ;) ( Don't make it into minecraft blocks but aan actual wave) -- Probably not planned

Issues in settingsWindow (16-03-2026)

• Drawing tool falls behind when accelerating with the cursor (slow start -> faster movement).
• Undo option for Drawing tool?
• Size 1-45 kinda weird numbers (not a real issue = ragebait).
• Dock has an invisible border it has a visual that it attaches to; perhaps make it visible when the dock shows?
• Dock apps are clickable and navigates to app (good). If two instances are available, this feels arbitrarily chosen on one instance (maybe defaults to workspace closest to 1?) (like a selection or hover to see options).
• Dock cannot be closed with escape, user needs to click to leave Dock (Dock stops user from interacting with other apps like typing).
• Global shortcut for opening Dock and perhaps keyboard navigation? (sounds hard to pull of)
• If nc or osd global shortcut are used, bar is 100% transparent apart from modules, seems to ignore the regular hover state opacity.
• Should volume/pipewire module be hover as well? No other bar module is hover apart from the Dock (which is a hidden module activated by hover)?
• Calendar swipe to other month has no animation -> on purpose?