Proposal: Stealth mode (no UI)

[unoghost]

Hi! First of all, this is great! Kudos galore.

It would be neat with an optional stealth mode, i.e. no UI when operating normally. I personally found it a bit distracting with the square box popping up for a split second. A stealth mode option would acommodate easily distracted people like me 🙃

Thanks!

[mikker]

How would one know Leader Key is active?

I think I could be for something like this but I think it has to be "very, very little UI" still 😅

[unoghost]

I know Leader Key active because I just hit the leader key … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve only used the app for a couple of days, but I’m really only using muscle memory, not visual cues. The brief visual popup is more noise than anything, at least for me. All the UI I need (in case I need to add something) is in the menu bar icon. So for me, personally, no “noise” would be preferrable. 😌

[LennartEgb]

Another suggestion I think is subtle but effective by @AbhinavRobinson here #107 (comment)

Idle	Active

[mikker]

Great solution, I'll try it out

[arabshapt]

I think no indication is needed if we introduce a timeout(configurable). So e.g. after 1sec without key pressing leader key deactivates automatically without hitting esc or similar

#116

[LennartEgb]

Timeout and stealth mode are separate features. With timeout I think it is better to have the very little UI in the status bar to know if Leader Key is active or not after x seconds.

[LennartEgb]

Should "stealth mode" (hiding the main UI) + "Always show cheatsheet" (or toggleable) result in a centered cheatsheet (as suggested in #112)? Is a cheatsheet in stealth mode contradictory?

[mikker]

I made a short attempt at completely hidden mode today and I have to say, I didn't like it at all. I still think "very little UI" is the way to go. Perhaps the same dot window, just small, 30x30 px and in the bottom right corner of the screen instead.

Either way, I think the easiest way to implement no window at all is to actually have a window, just 0% opacity. Focus tracking is very tied to the window currently.