Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth

On 28/07/11 22:20, Evan Huus wrote:

Admittedly, I've never used the spatial alternative proposed here, but
I imagine it would be much nicer if I could know 'four tabs is app X'
all the time, rather than, 'four tabs is the
fourth-most-recently-used, which was, uh, what again?'


Then you might like the Super+n key combinations, holding down Super 
(the Windows key on many laptops) and pressing 0-9 will launch/switch to 
that launcher. Hold down Super for a while to see the actual number.


I would also be happy to try a patch which used Super+TAB the way we've 
discussed, tabbing through the launcher.


Mark

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Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-29 Thread Toki Tahmid
That's an excellent idea, binding Super+TAB to spatial program order.
Ability to sort through both logically and spatially are going to find their
respective uses. I would love to see it become a reality. (I need to hurry
up and learn some languages)

I want to bring up a slightly offtopic issue, that is switching between
windows of the same application. Yes, we do have tabs, but they still leave
much to be desired - there's no way to drag and drop from one folder to
another tabbed in a Nautilus window, for example. So going by the Nautilus
example, if I'm sorting through a lot of files between a no. of folders it'd
be pretty nice if I could keep my chat window out of the way when I decided
to move something.

Admittedly, that isn't a very good example, but I think a few of us are
going to be able to think up of a few cases when we want to be able to dig
through the windows of the same application. Anything planned about this?

On 29 July 2011 10:42, Mark Shuttleworth mark.shuttlewo...@canonical.comwrote:

 On 28/07/11 22:20, Evan Huus wrote:

 Admittedly, I've never used the spatial alternative proposed here, but
 I imagine it would be much nicer if I could know 'four tabs is app X'
 all the time, rather than, 'four tabs is the
 fourth-most-recently-used, which was, uh, what again?'


 Then you might like the Super+n key combinations, holding down Super (the
 Windows key on many laptops) and pressing 0-9 will launch/switch to that
 launcher. Hold down Super for a while to see the actual number.

 I would also be happy to try a patch which used Super+TAB the way we've
 discussed, tabbing through the launcher.

 Mark

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Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-29 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 29 July 2011 08:42, Mark Shuttleworth
mark.shuttlewo...@canonical.com wrote:

 Then you might like the Super+n key combinations, holding down Super (the
 Windows key on many laptops) and pressing 0-9 will launch/switch to that
 launcher. Hold down Super for a while to see the actual number.

This is something I _really_ love. If that could be coupled with
alt+num switching
of windows in the spread view, I think it would be even better. For
instance, if you
have your terminal on the third tile and you have many open terminal windows,
then you'd press super+33 to display them all, and then alt+1 to
select the first one.
If you'd also be able to reorganize them, I think that would be a
massive usability
improvement for heavy multitaskers.

 I would also be happy to try a patch which used Super+TAB the way we've
 discussed, tabbing through the launcher.

That also sounds logical and nice.

Jo-Erlend

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