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VirtCode / hypr-dynamic-cursors

a plugin to make your hyprland cursor more realistic, also adds shake to find
MIT License
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Add cursor trails! #6

Open ghost opened 3 months ago

ghost commented 3 months ago

Would be super cool to have that dithering effect like on Hypnospace!!! https://fxtwitter.com/jaytholen/status/824335885676244993

The trail duration should be configurable, and big bonus if we can use it with other effects.

VirtCode commented 3 months ago

haha yes, cursor trails would certainly be fun and nice to have in hyprland

I am however unsure whether they are in scope for this plugin... I have played around a bit with graphically advanced effects (mainly inverted cursors), and come to the conclusion that they are probably out of scope here as they require heavy modifications to the rendering, and also deviate quite a bit from the original goal of this plugin, adding small transforms to the cursor to make it more "realistic". While a cursor trail wouldn't be that advanced, it would require it's completely own rendering for rendering the "old shapes".

So as it currently stands, I probably won't implement more advanced effects in this plugin, but am considering making a separate plugin which adds more intensive (and costly) cursor effects. I don't have an ETA on that though, and need yet to work out how compatibility between that and this plugin would be. I also have other things to focus on with this plugin, mainly allowing different effect settings per cursor shape (at least with serverside cursors).

But thanks a lot for the suggestion! I will come back to this issue if I decide to implement it somewhere.

DADA30000 commented 1 month ago

haha yes, cursor trails would certainly be fun and nice to have in hyprland

I am however unsure whether they are in scope for this plugin... I have played around a bit with graphically advanced effects (mainly inverted cursors), and come to the conclusion that they are probably out of scope here as they require heavy modifications to the rendering, and also deviate quite a bit from the original goal of this plugin, adding small transforms to the cursor to make it more "realistic". While a cursor trail wouldn't be that advanced, it would require it's completely own rendering for rendering the "old shapes".

So as it currently stands, I probably won't implement more advanced effects in this plugin, but am considering making a separate plugin which adds more intensive (and costly) cursor effects. I don't have an ETA on that though, and need yet to work out how compatibility between that and this plugin would be. I also have other things to focus on with this plugin, mainly allowing different effect settings per cursor shape (at least with serverside cursors).

But thanks a lot for the suggestion! I will come back to this issue if I decide to implement it somewhere.

Also it would be nice to have cursor trails like in osu, or like in hyprtrails, or just a line that fades generally :)