Reverting the patch will kill the mouse action of switching on next window.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Carlos R. Mafra <crma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 at 12:29:57 +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:50:40 +0800
>> David Maciejak <david.macie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This patch is fixing the focused next window list order.
>> > As now, the switching was only working for 2 windows.
>> > For example, taking 3 windows called A,B,C.
>> > If the windows list is A,B,C where A is the current focused window.
>> > Focusing on B will result on switching position A and B, thus C will
>> > never be the next window.
>> > For this example the patch is updating the linked list as B,C,A.
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I think this patch breaks behaviour of Window Maker.
>>
>> One thing is that when I change between workspaces it keeps focusing
>> last created window instead of last used one.
>>
>> Other is that it changes focus behaviour, ie, I can't alt-tab between
>> two windows, now I have to go through whole list to change between two
>> recently used ones.
>> For example with windows A, B, C, D (with [A] marking A as focused)
>> [A], B, C, D
>> I 'alt-tab' once
>> A, [B], C, D
>> I 'alt-tab' once more
>> A, B, [C], D
>> where old behaviour would go to:
>> [A], B, C, D
>>
>> I could also choose other window instead of B and I could go back to A
>> instantly like so
>> [A], B, C, D
>> I 'alt-tab' and while keeping alt down, I 'tab' more and end up on let's
>> say C
>> A, B, [C], D
>> now I alt-tab again and with this patch it goes to D
>> A, B, C, [D]
>> with old behaviour I am back on A
>> [A], B, C, D
>>
>> I think the old behaviour is more usable.
>> So I would like to propose reverting this patch
>
> Thanks for the detailed description. I also caught
> myself doing extra Alt+TABs recently because of this.
>
> At first I thought it was a good idea when I saw the
> patch, but the old behaviour is somehow imprinted
> on my mind.
>
> Reverting.
>
>
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