One idea could be to use the size differences and placement mean something. Say that I have five windows open, one that I use constantly and one that keep checking out every now and then - the placement that would make most sense then is to make sure that I as a user can quickest focus on the window most probably needed.
So say its a grid sollution - the second most used window should be placed nearest to the mouse (under the mouse currents position so that whether the window grid was started with a keyboard shortcut or a screen edge it would have the same result). OR by size - where the largest is the second most used and then falling in size to the last used (thats the smallest) On Friday 09 January 2015 09.35.14 Andres Betts wrote: > Maybe another thing that could help in the case of having a ton of windows > is to actually have them all be presented and not shaded. So not making all > of them be dark and only lighten up the one where the cursor is over. > > Maybe in the VDG we could come up with some ideas. You could post it there > if you wanted extra input. > > -- > Andres Betts > > On January 9, 2015 at 9:32:55 AM, Martin Klapetek > (martin.klape...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Andres Betts <anditosan1...@gmail.com> > wrote: My only objection to that is that the grid will end up making the > each window generally smaller until it could be hard to know what window > represents what content. There are other methods that could be used for > that, like stacking similar windows close together, or having really good > typography to name each window. > > Well if you have /that/ many windows, I think neither setting for that > effect will be good enough :) But I tried with 16 windows on my 1920x1200 > and I can still make out very well what's what > --> http://paste.opensuse.org/images/4207e18f.png > > There are also still the text labels over the window, so if you cannot tell > a window by the thumb size, you can just read it (that imo works well). > > Cheers > -- > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel