| Summary: | Alt-Tab behavior - not really recently used | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Victor Varvaryuk <victor.varvariuc> |
| Component: | core | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | emoxam, enterprise.ekle, hsantanna, michael.couck, seishin |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 4.8.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Victor Varvaryuk
2012-04-04 06:40:53 UTC
Request is a response coming from forum thread http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=99625 Let's take it back to the forum and use brainstorm to figure out whether this is a change users would like to have :-) I agree that the logic of this wish might be subjective, but there is one objective point in its favour, which maybe wasn't made clear: being able to change Alt-Tab behaviour helps people coming to KDE from Windows. I am myself using KDE and WIndows in parallel, and for me its difficult to switch to different workflow in KDE, event if it's more logical. I agree, don't lunix developers want to come users from windows ? So most behaviour things must be exactly as they are in windows. I can't understand whats wrong with alt+tab for a long time! Do not be stubborn let it be optioanl, i guess it's not so hard. I have made a patch in the KDE/4.11 branch for this and compiled a x64 binary that may be used as replacement: https://github.com/katakumpo/kde-workspace#kde-workspace the relevant commit is this one: https://github.com/katakumpo/kde-workspace/commit/021ed7cf41e416ee3d93439c4f09489a38b3a35f I assume this will not come to live here, but it may help others on their machines. > I assume this will not come to live here
as the code just deletes a currently used behavior: no. That would need
exposing with an option at least.
*** Bug 342868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Plasma 5.13.2 and this bug is still annoying people and there is still being requested for a solution where, at least, users could chose the behavior: - If the minimized window will actually be sent to bottom of the stack (current plasma behavior); or - If the last minimized window will be at the top of the stack (Microsoft Windows behavior, Gnome, xfce). That way users can select "the last used window" even if it was just minimized. Another approach would be to offer another shortkey to change to the last used window. Microsoft Windows also have this feature, where you can use gesture on touchpad or touchscreen (slide from right border to inside) to do that. Android N also offers that feature by double tapping the multitask phone button. KDE Plasma System Settings already haves a robust Task Switcher configuration, but it really misses that option where a minimized window is kept in top of the stack, just like a regular window. Current discussion: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=143414 Older topics: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=99625 https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=101211 Please don't just reopen reports. Thank you. i too would like this to be fixed! |