[qutebrowser] Feature request: Alternative to c.tabs.show_switching_delay

[benh]

It's been a while since I looked but can an outside process effect the
state of the bar? If so then could this key watching behavior can be
offloaded to an outside script?

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 14:32 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> Hey Martin,
>
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 11:17:51PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> > for the feature
> > "c.tabs.show = 'switching'"
> > one can set
> > "c.tabs.show_switching_delay = 1200"
> > in order to control, how long the tab bar is shown.
> >
> > Since the tabs are switched with shift+j or shift+k, I think a better
> > solution would be to show the tabs as long as the shift key is held
> > down, after pressing shift+j.
> >
> > From a user perspective, this seems very natural behavior to me, and it
> > is least annoying, since:
> > Sometimes I want to see the tabs for a long time (searching a long list)
> > Sometimes I want the tabs to disappear asap.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> qutebrowser's input model is centered on commands being bound to keys.
> Without
> hardcoding things (which isn't really a possibility - there are no
> hardcoded
> keybindings), that means there's no way to say "do this when shift is
> pressed/released". Also, other people might use non-default keybindings
> (like
> gt/gT) for switching tabs.
>
> It's a bit similar to this:
> https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4768
>
> If you have an idea how any of those ideas would fit in well with
> qutebrowser's
> configuration, I'm all ears! The only thing I could think of so far is
> qutebrowser doing some magic (if tab switching commands happen to be bound
> to a
> keybinding with modifier, do what you proposed with that modifier key), but
> that seems quite cumbersome (both to implement and to explain).
>
> Florian
>
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