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Buttons on Dock is NOT labeled #179

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muyinliu opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 7 comments · May be fixed by #339
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Buttons on Dock is NOT labeled #179

muyinliu opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 7 comments · May be fixed by #339
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muyinliu commented Aug 9, 2020

e.g.
QQ20200809-225341@2x

Note: the Dock in placed at right of the screen.

@dexterleng dexterleng added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 31, 2020
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+1 on this. This would mean that Vimac would immediately become an application switcher. :)

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+1

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I was playing with another Vimac-like app, VimMotionApp (https://github.com/dwarvesf/VimMotionApp), and it explicitly shows a hidden dock automatically and shows hints. This is a nice solution to the problem to use as inspiration!

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muyinliu commented Mar 10, 2021

I was playing with another Vimac-like app, VimMotionApp (https://github.com/dwarvesf/VimMotionApp), and it explicitly shows a hidden dock automatically and shows hints. This is a nice solution to the problem to use as inspiration!

VimMotionApp works fine in Chrome, but make WeChat cost 100% CPU and don't know why...
Hope that VimMotionApp support features like resize the font of tags(labels), and I think Tags title starting with: should NOT limit at least 25 characters(I use only asdfghjkl as Vimac's tags' characters).

@dexterleng dexterleng linked a pull request Mar 14, 2021 that will close this issue
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dexterleng commented Mar 14, 2021

Showing hints for the dock items sounds good, although I'm hesitant in adding an option to Show Dock if hidden since it would block hints in the bottom of the active application (which doesn't seem ideal).

Perhaps there are better tools out there (or an unfulfilled market) for application switching?

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It seems to me that users may want to perform OS operations other than clicking and scrolling, like application switching, vim-esque commands on text fields, copy/paste text on screen...

The more I think about it seems more feasible for me to build an always active "workflow mode" (see this proposal) that allows users to easily transition to clicking, scrolling, and other community contributed modes.

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Showing hints for the dock items sounds good, although I'm hesitant in adding an option to Show Dock if hidden since it would block hints in the bottom of the active application (which doesn't seem ideal).

Agreed. Maybe there's a shortcut to show the dock...

Perhaps there are better tools out there (or an unfulfilled market) for application switching?

Yes, indeed, there is no shortage of application switchers, not the least of which is command-tab! :)

I'm really excited about the evolution of Vimac toward a unified keyboard only replacement for the mouse. The dock is one step in that direction.

I look forward to a future of "If you can see it, Vimac can click it!"

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