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diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-12-window-switcher-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-12-window-switcher-design.md index 5689ace..487de1d 100644 --- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-12-window-switcher-design.md +++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-12-window-switcher-design.md @@ -71,6 +71,24 @@ Both corner overlays need a scrim or shadow behind them. A themed icon drawn over an arbitrary window preview can land on a same-coloured region and disappear, a light icon on a white page being the obvious case. +## With nothing to show + +When the filtered list is empty, the overlay still opens, and shows two centred +lines in place of the grid: + + Nothing here but hopes and dreams... + go create something beautiful! + +The second is larger and dimmer than the first. + +The state is reachable two ways: a fresh session before anything is launched, +and closing the last window from the switcher itself, which stays open by +design. Opening on nothing was considered and rejected in favour of this, +because a full-screen dim with nothing in it reads as a hang. + +Since there is no card to click in this state, the backdrop closes the overlay +on click as well as on Escape. That holds generally, not only when empty. + ## Data One source: `Hyprland.toplevels`, refreshed with `Hyprland.refreshToplevels()` @@ -105,6 +123,7 @@ open; there is no attempt to detect the ALT release. | arrows / TAB | move the selection | | Enter | focus the selection, close the overlay | | Escape | close the overlay, focus nothing | +| click the backdrop | close the overlay, focus nothing | The close button leaves the overlay open because closing is a side errand: a dismissal would mean reopening to close a second window. The card disappears on |