Am Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009 21:49:24 schrieb Thomas Lübking: > now my 2¢ on the whole suggestion: > ------------ > imho there two different approaches to switch windows. > - one is "on the fly" - which is good if you've got 2 up to 4 open windows, > therefore the current concept is pretty much ok. > > - the other one is to find out of your window mess - basically the exposé > approach > the problem we face is top provide sth. like this (where window switching > is a single task job) for an uncomposited environment > > -> (regarding the fulltime job switch) > - whatever we do: not using the entire available screen is waste. > (otherwise it would just be another taskbar :-( > > - the task is not bound to mouse or keyboard usage (i.e. you want to use > both input devs) > > - as it's a fulltime job, there can (and should) be an explicit leave > statement (clicking a window, pressing enter, etc.) > > - therefore there's no problem with a searchline either =D > > the key backdraw is that we cannot rely on compositing i.e. a miniversion > of the window. > all we have are title and icon and the icon is probably ambigious (right > now i've got 5 kmail windows opened...) and the text (maybe ambigious as > well) is a rather "slow" visualization :-( > > to improve this we could include the window geometries (or rather aspects) > to draw some boxes and strip stuff like the app name from the displayed > window titles (as they're implicated by the icons anyway) <advert>the > bespin deco has such feature implemented ;-)</advert> > > Sidenote: > --- > imho a WM may take advantages from other running process but not rely with > some core functionality on them (even if we assumed the "plasma/KDE only!" > variant (what's pretty un-unix). > what if krunner crashes, and a user who never uses it otherwise "magically" > looses some functionality of his/her WM? s/he might search a whole day for > the option to reactivate it :-(
thanks Thomas, your comment helped. So basically I agree that we cannot change the alt+tab behaviour, which has to be quick and has to be with alt key pressed. So what we need is that fulltime job. And basically everything I proposed so far is for that fulltime job. And I think that could be done with a special KRunner interface (in that case it would be ok to use the "external" KRunner as it is not such an important core functionality like alt+tab). And I agree that current size of the KRunner interface is a waste of space when going for such a switcher. So Plasma devs is it possible to get it bigger when we activate KRunner from KWin? I don't think it has to use the full width, but full height or a reasonable height to fit all windows in the selection would be nice.
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