How to trigger GitHub Actions workflow only for specific label events (not all labels)

[Telomelonia]

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I have a CI orchestration workflow that I want to trigger only when:

A PR is opened, synchronized, or reopened
A specific label (let's call it "special-label-ci") is added or removed from a PR

Currently, my workflow uses:

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, labeled, unlabeled]

The problem is this causes the workflow to run whenever any label is added to the PR, not just my "special-label-ci" label. While I can add conditional logic in the jobs to skip processing for other labels, the workflow still shows up in the Actions tab and triggers unnecessarily.
Is there a way to make GitHub Actions only trigger a workflow when a specific label is involved, not for all labels? I want to avoid the workflow from being triggered at all for non-special label events.
I've tried various approaches with job-level conditions, but they still show as workflow runs (even if skipped). I've also considered using separate workflows with repository_dispatch, but that seems overly complex for what should be a simple filtering need.
Any suggestions for a cleaner approach? I'm trying to avoid noise in the Actions tab and unnecessary workflow runs for unrelated label changes.

[aelmizeb]

I think GitHub Actions does not currently support filtering workflow triggers by specific label names at the "on" level
here is available activity types, if that can help why not use specific type like "enqueued" :

• assigned
• unassigned
• labeled
• unlabeled
• opened
• edited
• closed
• reopened
• synchronize
• converted_to_draft
• locked
• unlocked
• enqueued
• dequeued
• milestoned
• demilestoned
• ready_for_review
• review_requested
• review_request_removed
• auto_merge_enabled
• auto_merge_disabled

[Telomelonia]

@aelmizeb
Thanks for the help, I will use a make-shift approach from the enqueue option.

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