On Sunday, December 7, 2014, Carlos R. Mafra <crma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 at 16:11:43 +0800, David Maciejak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > These patches are providing an implementation of a workspace pager. > > Currently when called, a new frame presenting mini workspace images > > are displayed > > at the bottom of the screen above other windows. > > When clicking on one of the miniatures, the workspace is switched and > > the frame is closed. > > > > WPrefs was updated to be able to disable the feature from the expert zone > > and to be able to configure the default key shortcut for the > > action "Open workspace pager". > > The default frame background can be configured by setting > > an optional variable "WorkspaceMapBack" from WindowMaker conf file as in: > > > > WorkspaceMapBack = (tpixmap, "/tmp/testme.png", gray20); > > > > Drawbacks: a screenshot of the workspace is used for the miniatures. > > This screenshot is taken only when a workspace switched event occurs. > > > > First, it means that the workspace switching process can be longer than > usual. > > Secondly, updated minitatures can only be available when the workspace > > is "opened" (cause windows have to be mapped to be able to be copied). > > So when wmaker is (re)started or when for example a window is moved to > > another workspace the corresponding miniature is NOT updated. > > (I did not find a clean and easy way to do so, feel free to share if > > you have some ideas) > > Thanks a lot, David! This is very nice. > > I think it is of fundamental importance to also be able to select > the workspaces using only the keyboard, for example by hitting TAB. > Do you think you can implement that? > > Yes that can be implemented, a maximum of ten workspaces can be displayed at a time. So numbers are already bounds to jump from the current ten to next ten. 0-> workspace from main to 9 1-> workspace from 10 to 19 Etc. Adding TAB can be implemented. > And perhaps the workspace images could be bounded by a frame border. > It would be nice to have a border in case the color of the workspace > map background is the same as the standard background. In fact in the previous version there was already a frame border but I removed it to simplify the code, instead the current image workspace is enlightened now, maybe not sufficiently ? > > In any case, thanks a lot for your work! I was so happy that I even > ignored the checkpatch errors, but please don't forget to check > your patches next time :-) > > Yes not sure if I ran it on the version I shared, any more feedback than that ? Regards, David
