[Feature request] Support for powerline in swaybar

[her001]

Powerline is a status line plugin with support for a modded i3bar, among other things. It does not support mainline i3bar. The main requirement, as far as I know, is to have support for background colors and fallback fonts (the latter of which might be in swaybar already).

Edit: Fallback fonts are not even required, as Powerline can use themes that do not use their special characters

[SethBarberee]

Fallback fonts are supported in swaybar but I don't know about background colors. Powerline is kinda what I'm doing with my status bar in sway but mine has only has the arrow tips in it

[mikkeloscar]

Swaybar has support for background colors through the i3bar protocol.

To do the arrows like that, swaybar would need to support per block separators with different fg/bg color by extending the i3bar protocol.

An alternative would be to add support for another protocol which is not aware of blocks like the protocol used in LemonBoy/bar (Which is the preferred way to do a powerline status bar in i3, it seems).

[kigerpunk]

This is slightly irrelevant, but does swaybar support arbitrary input like i3blocks?

[mikkeloscar]

@ke7ofi you can pass it an arbitrary line of text if that is what you mean? You won't get colors that way though.

[ddevault]

Feel free to keep having a discussion, but I'm not sure there's something actionable here so I'm going to close the issue.

[her001]

@SirCmpwn If someone were to submit a pull request that implemented support for powerline, do you think it would be appropriate to add that feature to swaybar?

[ddevault]

It depends on what's necessary to support it. What would have to change?

[her001]

I am not 100% sure as I have not gone through the code, https://github.com/s-ol/i3bgbar is the old fork of i3bar that supports it.

This issue powerline/powerline#145 (comment) on the Powerline github has some details on how it was implemented. Looks like it was mostly adding a key to the json input for background-color and making sure it actually changed the background color for that text.

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It depends on what's necessary to support it. What would have to change?

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[ddevault]

That sounds like it's supported by i3-gaps and falls under the scope of #307

[her001]

Oh, wow... I never saw that issue. It does look like it should work, if
Powerline was modified. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

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That sounds like it's supported by i3-gaps and falls under the scope of
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