Add Quick-Select Theme-Layer for Hover Workflow and Center-Click Workflow

[Linkazen]

Description

Related to #1452

It would be nice to have the ability to show and theme both the Hover Workflow quick-key and Center-Click key too, just like the Open-Workflow key.

Affected Desktop Environments

All

Additional Information

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[Schneegans]

The more I think about this, the more I get unsure. Problem is, only few themes will support this (it's not a super useful feature). And then having the checkbox in the settings to enable this but which does nothing for most themes will be pretty confusing, I think...

[Linkazen]

Hmm... I think that there are still uses where this could be applicable for some people. The only thing I would possibly be worried about is clutter in the menu, but people creating themes could probably handle this in a good way.

As for the checkbox in the settings, I do agree that it would be fairly confusing if most themes ended up not supporting it. Perhaps a way around this would be to only show the option in the settings if the theme actually contains a layer with quick-select-key content (or in this case hover-select-key or something) that way the option will only be available when it's relevent, or available.

Either way, I do think now that the main quick key has been added, this definitely isn't as important of a feature to add. As the main select quick key is definitely going to be the one most people end up using.

[Schneegans]

Yeah, this would be great. However, we may have to reconsider the UX there anyways. I really do not like how the dark/light mode support is implemented. If you have checked the "Enable light/dark mode" option, you can select different themes based on your system color scheme. Did you know this?

Screencast.From.2026-08-23.06-36-41.mp4

Problem is, that all the options there on the left which somewhat depend on the theme are only stored once in the settings. So we can only enable the quick-select-key layer for both, light and dark mode together. And unchecking the option will disable this for all themes and not only the currently select one. And then showing and hiding the checkbox based on the currently selected theme is not super logical either...

[Linkazen]

Yes, I understand why you're a bit more hesitant now. I wasn't aware of this functionality before, definitely could be an annoyance. Maybe there could be some kind of per-theme settings system. But, that would be a much bigger issue than this, especially with the light/dark mode feature you've just shown me; and at the moment, the current settings implementation works completely fine.

Maybe this can just be left alone for now, and in the future if the settings ever get reworked, or changed to allow this feature without much confusion then it can be considered.

Thanks for taking time to discuss!