feature request: gtk overlay in libcosmic

[vnuxa]

im making a desktop shell that uses libcosmic, and in the past ive used a desktop shell that depended on gtk
and theres a widget that i noticed i couldn't remake in libcosmic and thats the gtk overlay widget
it would be really nice to have the overlay widget, to have much nicer animations and other cool stuff that you could do with widgets overlayed ontop of each other

with how gtk overlay widgets work, they take the size of the first child and then places the other children on top of each other and wont render outside the overlay, hopefully something similar can be implemented within libcosmic

[mmstick]

There are overlay widgets in libcosmic and iced. You can create custom widgets that draw an overlay by using the overlay method of the widget trait. See the context drawer and menu widgets as an example.

[vnuxa]

dont they have just a single child?
what im asking for is a container that overlays multiple children ontop of it
though there might be something that im not getting

[mmstick]

An overlay widget attaches to a widget, such as how the context drawer attaches to the application's entire content area beneath the header bar. This overlay widget can draw any number of widgets on top of the widget it is attached to. The context drawer widget places a container on the right side of the window's content area, but custom widgets can draw any number of widgets in their overlay.

[vnuxa]

apparently theres a stack widget in iced 0.13 which is exactly what im describing
thanks for the help though

[mmstick]

We are currently rebasing to the latest version of iced, so we should be able to import this soon