[Feature request] Workspace switcher: implement ext-work-workspace protocol

[stefonarch]

As cosmic-workspace-unstable-v1 is merged in labwc and will be in 0.8.1 a labwc backend could be created, enabling the workspace switcher.

EDIT: fixed link

[isf63]

I recently investigated Wayland and found: https://wayland.app/protocols/

I think we shouldn't be too broad with supporting protocols.

[stefonarch]

Reality is: waybar and sfwbar (screenshot below) do it already, and as we support already the correspondent KDE protocol https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-panel/tree/master/panel/backends/wayland/protocols I see no reason for excluding it as it will add functionality for labwc.

From the (fixed) link:

but version 1 of the cosmic-workspaces protocol is basically the same as what is proposed in the upstream protocol.

[marcusbritanicus]

If waybar and swfbar do it, then it should be quite easy. We can use their code as a reference. If the license is compatible, then we might be able to borrow it (with attribution, of course) directly.

[stefonarch]

If waybar and swfbar do it, then it should be quite easy. We can use their code as a reference. If the license is compatible, then we might be able to borrow it (with attribution, of course) directly.

Actually I didn't manage to make it work on waybar (it complained always about "module cosmic/workspaces not found"). Sfwbar with default config works out of the box.

[stefonarch]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/commit/605436b591729f70fb319fafbe3414657696841d

Labwc is implementing it already, don't know others, Hyprland dev isn't enthusiastic about it.

[jeremywh7]

Labwc is implementing it already, don't know others, Hyprland dev isn't enthusiastic about it.

From Phoronix:
"The new Labwc release adds support for the ext-workspace protocol as well as menu enhancements that include icons and dynamic root menus. Labwc 0.8.3 also brings new configuration options, a "WarpCursor" action, and many bug fixes."