Feature request: ideas for GUI tray app

[eugenesvk]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

These are some feature ideas re. how to make the gui app better, currently Windows only as that's the only platform natively supported (and also some of the issues are tied to the windows GUI framework)

So maybe slap a help-needed tag just so some helpful soul could notice?

Describe the solution you'd like.

• Allow users to modify layout from config:
  • add custom menus, e.g., specific configs as menuitems in the main menu instead of the submenu
  • allow changing menu names
  • allow user config of accelerators in context menus, for configs and in general
  • menu positions
• Logging
  • ✗ Blocked by Rust libs: Allow changing log level from the menu: simplelog doesn't support it issue
  • add a key output window in the nice "simulated output" format
  • to file / memory and show result in the app's own window instead of using other debugging tools
  • add a way to flash icon / send user tray notifications / show popup on some warnings/errors? (partially exists on config reloads etc)
  • Redirect stdout to a logger so that current println! work
• Misc UI
  • ✗ Blocked by Windows bugs: Auto-cleanup/remove tray icon on forced exit src
  • ✗ Blocked by kanata: Add pause to the tray menu
  • Focus tray menu with a kanata keybind
  • show active config reload shortcuts
  • ✗ Blocked by NWG framework (or maybe not)
  • Track right click events on menuitems to open target in the file explorer on right click
  • Same to show full path in the tooltip on menuitems hover fr
  • Make accelerators work for any layout, reflect physical key, not a keycapfr
  • How to dynamically change current menu items src

Describe alternatives you've considered.

n/a

Additional context

(an a much bigger can of worms: is there any x-platform Rust GUI framework that can make tray apps?)

[eugenesvk]

Focus tray menu with a kanata keybind

Can this be achieved by sending some kind of window message to the tray icon controle? https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/pull/1082