Feature Request: Overlay Support about capturesight HOT 2 CLOSED

This has been a requested feature, so it's something that will happen. I also have a list of thoughts:

Libtesla

• Works similar to Plutonium, which is what CaptureSight's applet uses, so it'll be easier for people to contribute to CaptureSight's applet and overlay
• One consistent way for users to interact with overlays
• Unless a better option comes, it'll probably be adopted over time by the community (both devs and users)
• From a UX perspective, it's better to have one tool managing all overlays
• Someone else is maintaining the overlay layer
• It is more of a quick-menu type, but I'm hopeful this will be modified

Luxray (uses lvgl under the hood)

• I pulled some of Luxray's overlay abilities into a library on a fork (it's a rough job right now but does work), so a bit of the overlay specific part is already handled
• More customizable, although this means more to setup
• It's been out for much longer and has a far larger community around it
• Luxray uses a custom lvgl fork, which needs to be maintained

I have a WIP version of CaptureSight using libtesla that I'm hoping to do a pre-release with and get feedback on - https://twitter.com/zaksabeast/status/1224181976795578370

I started making the overlay version of CaptureSight using the luxray overlay library, and libtesla happened to be released that same day. This was great since it gave me a chance to try libtesla and have a fresh dev experience comparison in my mind. I'm still not opposed to switching to the luxray overlay, but I am currently leaning towards libtesla.

I think trying a libtesla port is currently within my capabilities and I'd like to try making this work

I appreciate this piece of feedback. Part of CaptureSight's goal is to be a community project, so if one option is easier to work with than the other, that has an impact on the final decision.

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With the CaptureSight ovleray pre-release and the code now merged to master, I'm going to close this issue.

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