Action on mouse scroll/Knob like menu

[JaoPedroDev]

Description

I think it would be really nice if we could have an menu item that triggers actions on mouse scroll, like a knob.

A simple example would be a volume control, that is also a sub-menu.

The configuration could be like executing a command, and the "state" of the knob would be passed as an argument to de command:

amixer sset 'Master' {{state}}%

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And there could be a option to switch between sending the command on each scroll or sending the command after clicking the menu item. This would allow to, for example, execute a script that paste a Lorem Ipsum that size depends on the Knob state.

Affected Desktop Environments

All

Additional Information

No response

[Schneegans]

Thanks for the suggestion! Custom item types have been already on the roadmap for Kando since the very beginning. So this will come! But it's much more complicated:

• If we want to visualize the state, we also need a way to get the initial state. So at least two, maybe three scripts will be required (get_state, set_state, set_final_state (the latter is called only once when the item is closed)).
• How does this work with touch input?
• How does this work in marking or turbo mode?

Using a slider instead of a knob could help. With this, we could simply drag left and right (or up and down depending on the item's position) once we entered the item. This could solve the last to issues above.