Windows taskbar

[snoopiedoom]

Hi, first of all, thanks for all the great work you've done and i really appreciate the fact someone finally made a normal wm, acting like a wm, working like a wm.

Main issue I'm facing at the moment would be the windows taskbar and I'd like some opinion and help on this matter.

For starters, I couldn't handle the gap between windows > 5 and seeing both the polybar(?) and win taskbar, so I set the windows taskbar to auto hide and it solves all of my problems, good enough. if I need something, I've the alt+space quick launch from powertoys, though it sucks ass due to slowness, but will do for now.

Heres what I wanna do, I wanna disable the windows taskbar and get that notification center functionality up on the taskbar (it has its uses) buuuut, skimming through the docs, turns out the display manager is baked into the file explorer and desktop, and the taskbar is part of explorer. Uuuuugh... So for now, I'd be content with glaze config having an option to remove/hide the windows taskbar, who cares about the notification center, I just don't want to watch the taskbar go through its 10 second animation every time my mouse accidentally hits the bottom of the screen. 😡

Here they mention replacing the shell which seems interesting but I've yet to test how much that impacts the expected windows behaviour.
(At work, we are heavily intertwined with Microsoft)

I found nircmd on this post here, and the command nircmd.exe win trans class Shell_TrayWnd 256 does make it feel like there is no taskbar, with so far no issues, but I've yet to test how he did it, I presume shell_traywnd is window, looking at it here and here makes it seem an easy job, so I guess next stp would be for me to make a fork? I don't really want to use nircmd as it is.

Thoughts?

P.S.
I will not give up on the dream of taking the win key from windows and turning it into the mod key.

[ParasiteDelta]

You could make a fork, but the question would be is it worth the effort to you? If it is, then good luck. Otherwise, as far as some alternatives go, you could look at software like Flow Launcher and JaxCore via Rainmeter to substitute a lot of the functionality that DWM and the taskbar handles. After using both, Flow Launcher really works a lot better compared to PowerToys and is actually extensible, so I would recommend that instead.

Either way, good luck.