Re: Thoughts on Alt-Tab switching



--- On Mon, 6/8/09, Stanisław Pitucha <viraptor gmail com> wrote:

From: Stanisław Pitucha <viraptor gmail com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Alt-Tab switching
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Date: Monday, June 8, 2009, 9:11 PM

2009/6/8 Jeremy Perry <jeremy perry redhat com>:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/Switcher

I see a big hole in that page -> there's no mention about keyboard
interaction. I wonder if this idea would be more useful if one added
key operations like:

hold-alt -> press+release tab -> left/right to select task (with
bringing windows to front, etc. as described) -> release-alt to
confirm a switch
(up/down for tabs, etc.)

hold-alt -> press+release tab -> incremental search on typed letters
(tasks that don't match the typed characters disappear, if only one is
left, change to tab-switcher instead of app-switcher)

or... bonus points for supporting 'hjkl' as directions :)
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I like this.  Mouse interaction would be a nice option to use too, but it <alt>+<tab> should only ever require the keyboard.  I was actually thinking about something similar to this last week. 
<alt>+<tab> should continue to have its normal behavior (each press of <tab> goes to the next window).
<left arrow> and <right arrow> would navigate to the next item in the current level.  Eg. switching between windows in a given workspace, tabs in a given window, or different workspaces.
<up arrow> and <down arrow> will change levels to drill down into a windows tabs or move up to show windows in a different workspace.
Thus far we have not used any of the keys needed for regular text entry.  I propose that any alphanumeric text entered automatically be used for search, narrowing down the window/tab list. 
To make this nice for the user we need to find a way to make <alt>+<tab> sticky.  It shouldn't default to being sticky because that will mess with the default behavior in rather unpleasant ways.  There should be some simple one-handed way to make <alt>+<tab> stay up without the user holding <alt>.  What do you guys think would be a good way of toggling between sticky and non-sticky mode?


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