slow UI update when creating / moving spaces

[leandwo]

Just installed spacebar and happy with it so far. But it seems slow when creating and moving spaces. There is about a ~2-4 sec delay for the UI to update. Destroying spaces has no delay.

I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.4, if that makes a difference.

[leandwo]

Found a workaround. Setting something in spacebar's config will immediately refresh the UI.

You can just set any setting after creating a space and it should help with responsiveness:

# .skhdrc
# create/delete spaces
ctrl + shift + alt - z: 
  yabai -m space --create; \
  spacebar -m config spaces on
ctrl + shift + alt - x: 
  yabai -m space --destroy; \
  spacebar -m config spaces on

[cmacrae]

Hey @leosolid 👋 Thanks for raising this.
Yes, there are no events considered in the event loop for space creation/destruction at the moment.
spacebar's development has been placed on hold whilst I work on v2 (along with real life!), however this may be simple enough to implement that I'll just chuck it in :)

The destruction of workspaces is reflected instantly because it triggers a "space changed" event emission.

When you say "moving spaces", what do you mean? Changing the currently focused space, or re-ordering spaces?

Thanks for sharing your workaround for others 🙇

[leandwo]

@cmacrae After checking again, just creating and re-ordering spaces was where I was experiencing the sluggishness.

Looking forward to v2!