Custom Sounds Upon Selection

[WMan22]

The Motivation

Further customization and auditory memorization of swipe locations which is practical, also it would just simply be cool for certain ricing endeavors, which is fun.

The Solution

Essentially, I want to assign 2 sounds to each fly-pie addition, one for hover over, and one for selection, via a .wav or whatever audio type is compatible from a folder to that addition to my custom menu underneath the name, Icon, and Fixed Angle options. Hopefully I can also assign audio to end points on a Favorites option. I would like to be able to assign a different audio file to each end point and to each nested end point.

The Alternatives

I would like to be able to stash these audio files the same way you can stash other items next to that function near the trash for easy re-use and access. I'd like a mute and unmute toggle too for the whole tree so I can enable and disable this feature on a whim without having to edit a brand new fly pie menu that has these functions without the audio enabled.

[Simon Schneegans]

Hi there! Thanks for this idea, it sounds quite funny indeed. I think it's nothing I'll be working on in the foreseeable future, but if anyone wants to implement this, I'll happily accept a pull request!

[K]

The possibility to run scripts before or after the menu action is activated would be able to solve this and add a lot of other custom functionality

[Simon Schneegans]

@blipk That would be a neat solution for this (pretty niche) feature request. And indeed, this is already possible! Here is an example of a small python script which lets you execute code whenever an item in Fly-Pie is hovered or selected:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import dbus
import dbus.mainloop.glib
from gi.repository import GLib

def on_hover(menu, item):
    print(f"hovering {item} in menu {menu}")

def on_select(menu, item):
    print(f"selected {item} in menu {menu}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)

    bus = dbus.SessionBus()
    proxy = bus.get_object('org.gnome.Shell',
                           '/org/gnome/shell/extensions/flypie')

    proxy.connect_to_signal("OnHover", on_hover)
    proxy.connect_to_signal("OnSelect", on_select)

    print("Waiting for events... Press Ctrl+C to abort.")

    loop = GLib.MainLoop()
    loop.run()

This could easily be extended to play sound effects!