Yesterday I heard of https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/ but have never tried it myself. They have some pretty decent examples of widgets on their homepage. I think they have their own little langauge called QML which appears to be turing-complete.

Maybe that’s what you’re missing.

I played with GTK’s transitions a bit, but they don’t seem to support scaling-related transitions, so I don’t think you’ll be able to do that.

I was able to make a simple one: https://files.catbox.moe/okh3zc.mp4

Waybar uses GTK stylesheets for the theming. In theory, GTK CSS does have support for transitions and animations, which could be used in your case. But I’d say it’s a hard sell still. That aside I’ve never tried them in GTK, so I wouldn’t know if they even work in practice or how far.

I think you have a shot at this with eww instead. But it’s harder to work with and you’ll need to make somewhat complex scripts I’d imagine.

Alright. I pushed the changes to remote.

• https://github.com/eeriemyxi/dotfiles
• https://github.com/eeriemyxi/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/waybar

NOTE: Waybar has a built-in module for showing temperature, it’s just that I couldn’t make it work for me and that’s why I have a custom module to show CPU temperature. I recommend that you try the built-in one first (since it might work on your machine) for more minimal setup.

I’m almost there, I think. I’ll let you know in an hour or two.

https://files.catbox.moe/7ndi66.png

Eventually I’m going to push it my dotfiles Git repository, but right now I’m still figuring out the theming so it’s not up yet.

I’m using Waybar for the system bar. It should work on most Wayland compositors.