(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kwin Severity: wishlist there should be an option to disable the window list popup and instead direcly focus the windows when switching them with alt-tab. this is a quite useful feature when you usually have many windows open which all look the same to the window manager (terminals for example).
On Sunday 23 June 2002 04:47 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > Package: kwin > Severity: wishlist > > there should be an option to disable the window list popup and instead > direcly focus the windows when switching them with alt-tab. > this is a quite useful feature when you usually have many windows open > which all look the same to the window manager (terminals for example). Use CDE Alt-Tab style (see the config panel) -- Cristian Tibirna .. tibirna@sympatico.ca PhD student .. ctibirna@giref.ulaval.ca .. www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna KDE developer .. tibirna@kde.org .. www.kde.org
cde mode does not provide an lru. so this bug is _not_ done.
On Mon Jun 24 2002 at 09:36:08AM +0200 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > cde mode does not provide an lru. so this bug is _not_ done. agreed. i'll do the patch if you want as i'd quite like it too :) Alex
a patch "Temporarily raise windows while alt-tabbing" has been posted by Martin Blix Grydeland today. here are my thoughts wrt his patch: there is a technical problem with this checkbox: it applies only to KDE mode, so it should be at least disabled when CDE mode is selected. anyway, this points out that this possibly should be a 3rd tabbing mode instead of an option to an existing one. btw, the mode names are inconsequent: if "CDE" is used to describe one mode, the other one should be called "MS Windows". so probably the best would be naming the modes "Instant switch to next window (CDE)", "Popup LRU list + Switch when finished (MS Windows)" and "Popup LRU list + Instant raise". Oh, that reminds me, that some might want a mode "Instant switch with LRU (WindowMaker)". maybe, reorganize it totally: a radio group "When window is selected" {"Raise window", "Show popup", "Both"} and a checkbox "Use LRU". the combinations to achieve the "classic behaviours" would be pointed out in the tooltip, but i don't think anybody really wants to disable the LRU anyway.
YES the "KDE" and "CDE" labels are rather non-informative for most people... i wanted the "Instant switch to next window (CDE)" but didnt even understand it existed at first because "CDE"-mode means nothing to me. Mr Buddenhagen is on the right track with "Instant switch to next window" and "Popup LRU List" but LRU also sounds very cryptic :-/ Maybe "Popup Window List"?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118184 ***