I played around with eww for a while but eventually opted for Waybar as it was easier for me to configure. Hyprland is the top WM manager.
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Is it worth learning or is waybar good enough?
If you're just looking for a configurable and extendable desktop bar, then yes, Waybar is absolutely fine. If you want to have a fully-featured widgets system (that you can also use to build a desktop bar with it), then Eww is what you might want.
I tried to look into Eww but gave up because Waybar is absolutely fine.
I went through the same. Waybar is doing it for me now, I did not have the time to dive that deep into eww. Found a config for waybar from some guy who made a video for hyprland and has at least 3 versions of his configs in GitHub. Modified some stuff and I m good.
Waybar is great as a starting point but it lacks a lot of features: it mostly doesn't support hover effects, it cannot oppen popup menus.
Eww can do all of this, but this comes at a price of steep learning curve. AGS can do even more, but it even much more difficult, than Eww
It supports hover effects with the :hover
selector in the CSS definition.
Not for all widgets)