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Feature Request: Allow reordering of layers #7

Open binduwavell opened 2 months ago

binduwavell commented 2 months ago

Ideally this would be smart enough to also update any key mappings that reference the layers that were moved.

Also, it might be nice to have a quick way to clear layers either with K_NO or K_TRANS.

captdeaf commented 2 months ago

Swapping could probably be useful. Reordering implies moving all in between previous and new position.

What about: copy layer to clipboard, paste layer from clipboard?

Wouldn't help with rebinding all the existing keys pointing to the swapped/copied layer, though.

captdeaf commented 2 months ago

I do like the idea of wiping the board w/ KC_NO or KC_TRANS. Pretty easy to do as a "pre-made layer" I guess? "All KC_NO", "All Transparent"

binduwavell commented 1 month ago

I guess there are use cases for swap, wipe and duplicate. Swap just allows for clean reordering. Wipe for abandoned stuff and duplicate allows for creating a backup of a layer if you want to build a variant or just play with a layer without losing the current configuration. An important aspect of swap is that any layer referencing keys on any layer should be updated.

I propose duplicate rather than copy paste because the UX for swap and duplicate could be identical. Trigger on layer A and prompt the user to select the targes layer and both are effectively stateless while copy/paste you have to maintain the whole copied layer in state.

I guess both swap and duplicate could be done with copy/paste alone assuming folks have a free layer. This is not a given on some boards. My Atreus has 4 total layers and I use all of them.

captdeaf commented 1 month ago

Idea with copy and paste: I imagine it copying into the clipboard:

[KC_A, KC_B, ...] (layout of current layer)

So you can copy it from keybard, paste into your favorite editor. Then copy from editor, paste into keybard?