feat: dispatchers, add hidespecialworkspace

[Bartkk0]

Describe your PR, what does it fix/add?

Adds a dispatcher hidespecialworkspace that hides the current special workspace

Is there anything you want to mention? (unchecked code, possible bugs, found problems, breaking compatibility, etc.)

I don't think so

Is it ready for merging, or does it need work?

I think it's ready for merging

[Eclextic]

Hide as in, don't show the special workspace anymore or hide as in, make it inaccessible?

[Bartkk0]

Hide as in, don't show the special workspace anymore or hide as in, make it inaccessible?

Hide as in don't show it anymore

[MightyPlaza]

i think it would make more sense to add an arg to togglespecialworkspace (like 0/1/toggle) or create a new dispatcher that could open, close and toggle instead of creating one just to close it
also vaxry will want a wiki MR

[vaxerski]

mightyplaza is right on both fronts

[Eclextic]

i think it would make more sense to add an arg to togglespecialworkspace (like 0/1/toggle) or create a new dispatcher that could open, close and toggle instead of creating one just to close it also vaxry will want a wiki MR

Yeah I agree, that's what confused me a bit... The togglespecialworkspace functionality closely resembles what you are trying to do, so it should probably become an argument.

Also I can't think of a case where anyone would need to just close the special workspace instead of toggling it...

[Bartkk0]

for me the use case is to hide the currently visible special workspace, togglespecialworkspace could have an additional argument, but it would also need to handle referring to the current workspace

[Kommynct]

Always hiding the special workspace would be useful for making it so that when you switch to a workspace the special workspace always hides

I currently use this bound to every single workspace hotkey for this and it'd certainly simplify that

hyprctl monitors -j | jaq -r '.[] | select(.focused == true) | .specialWorkspace.name' | sd 'special:' '' | xargs -I [] hyprctl dispatch togglespecialworkspace []

[dxrcy]

#8594 provides alternative solutions which may be of use.