Add click event support to built in bar

[llyyr]

i3bar has the click event part to it as well, which is currently not supported.

Reference: https://i3wm.org/docs/i3bar-protocol.html#_click_events

[kotarac]

Curious, what's the use case?

Not against it, but there are a lot of wayland bars now with varied amount of complexity for people who need it, it would be nice keeping a simple option around.

[llyyr]

Primarily, being able to keep using the same i3status config across any compositor that happens to support i3bar and wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1.

Less importantly, I'm not a huge fan of Waybar because of how buggy it is (and in a way that's not self contained. My bar shouldn't ever be changing my compositor configuration...). And all the other popular solutions are full QML Shell/Widget interfaces. I'm sure there are other options that would be fine for me if I go searching for one though. This is probably understandably not a high priority, but tracking it is probably fine in case someone wants to implement it.

[kotarac]

Less importantly, I'm not a huge fan of Waybar because of how buggy it is (and in a way that's not self contained. My bar shouldn't ever be changing my compositor configuration...). And all the other popular solutions are full QML Shell/Widget interfaces. I'm sure there are other options that would be fine for me if I go searching for one though.

This was exactly my 1st thought when hearing about adding things to the bar, although, of course, the ask here is far from all the issues listed. 🙂

[mahkoh]

Primarily, being able to keep using the same i3status config across any compositor that happens to support i3bar and wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1.

I don't really understand this. I've looked at i3status and it doesn't seem to support these events.

[llyyr]

i3status

i3status-rust does, as does i3bar/swaybar.

[mahkoh]

It would be complicated.

[mahkoh]

I think the best solution would be to allow the status to be provided by an external application as a wl_surface. Then such an application could implement all of the complexities itself. It could even show popups and such.