Bug 85894

Summary: center current window in Alt-Tab window
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer>
Component: generalAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kollix
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Carsten Pfeiffer 2004-07-24 22:41:42 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.91)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
OS:                Linux

Trying to get used to the new Alt-Tab box, I have one idea for an improvement:

the list of windows should not go from 1 to n, where 1 is the current window, shown on top of the popup. Instead, the list should go from n/2-1 to n and then from 1 to n/2.

I.e. if your order of windows would be numbered from 1-7, then the current list would be
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

while the new order would be
5
6
7
1
2
3
4

That way, the user would
- not have to lift his head/eyes (your eyes are usually somewhat centered on the screen)
- always know where the current element in the list appears (in the center of the screen) -- currently it depends on the number of windows, i.e. he does not know in advance, where it will appear

And while I'm at it: instead of marking minimized windows with brackets, why not paint them in grey, like the taskbar does?

Cheers
Carsten
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2006-05-03 16:27:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118184 ***