On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Markus Teich <markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de> wrote: > Nikolay Vasylchyshyn wrote: >>> >>> Seems potentially very useful. >> >> I'm very glad to read this. : ) > > > I object. This "new" feature is already nearly there. > > If you have two active windows, in which you are working, > just zoom them to the top of the client stack. Then you > can easily switch between them with MODKEY+j and MODKEY+k. > > If you have three windows, in one third of the possibilities > of switching from any of client 1, 2 or 3 to one of the > remaining two clients you have to press one more key without > your patch: MODKEY+j+j instead of MODKEY+k and the other > way around. So during a prolonged work session you can save > 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the keypresses with three actively used > clients.
I end up spending quite some keypresses getting the right order for my windows. Especially when I bring together several tags and end up with difficult to predict interleaving of windows. > > The setup takes some key presses with your patch too and > managing (remembering and getting the right key combinations > into muscle memory) the additional state of every client > in your brain also takes some more time. Hence the idea of adding different colours. The state need not be stored in your brain. > > So at least for my workflow (which is not that static) this > patch is not useful. Probably not to be included in the main branch anyway, but it'd still make a good addition to the patch section of the wiki. -- ______________ Raphaël Proust
