>> One of the first things I did upon getting my G1G1 was to go into >> one of the .py files and __NOOP__ the "autoraising" of the Frame. >> That gave me Sugar screen behavior that was under *my* control. >> Now, Sugar has again started to interfere with what I am doing -- >> by raising the Frame when I alt-tab. I HATE THAT! I HATE THAT! > > I think the idea is to use the frame to show you which windows you can > alt+tab between, such as is done in Gnome or other WMs.
The way I work appears to be completely different. On Gnome I keep maybe a dozen virtual desktops open, and don't populate any of them with more than two "work windows". That allows me to reference a mental image of "what's where" -- and I just switch workplaces, instead of attempting to use alt-tab. The Sugar environment is more limited. I have learned through experience NOT to keep a large number of activities open. [The RAM limitation is severe, even when I am at home and can use a hard-disk swap partition with my XO.] So I have NO NEED to be shown "which windows I can alt+tab between" -- ideally, I should be able to do the actual alt-tab in LESS time than it would take me to bring up the Frame and interpret what it shows. Yes, I object to having the Frame slow down alt-tab. But that which really puts me off is having the Frame change the visual appearance of what I am working with. [If I *need* the Frame for anything, I will switch my attention to it -- but if all I am doing is going to a new screen in order to continue with my line of thought, I DO NOT WANT any distractions to interfere (such as having the Frame obtrude onto the screen).] It is not having control over "what the screen is being used for" that I hate. My point is that typically there are so few "windows" that the user can easily perform repetitive alt-tab, and stop when he sees (on the WHOLE screen) where he wants to be. [Since there is a key dedicated to bringing up Journal when needed, I sometimes patch homemodel.py to not even show Journal during alt-tabbing.] mikus _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar