Re: OSX Exposé, compiz scale windows picker question

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 05/11/2011 08:08 AM, Milan Oravec wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 02:42 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
> > You could try Alt+Tab and using the mouse to navigate. You can navigate
> > the Alt+Tab pop-up with Alt+[Shift+]Tab, Alt+[Shift+][above tab], the
> > arrow keys, and the mouse itself, which is a nice touch. Granted, it's
> > not quite as fast as what you describe (and I know from experience), but
> > it's just fast enough to work. What you describe could possibly be made
> > into an extension.
>
> Hmmm... I know about possibilities you mentioned above (i'm testing 
> gnome-shell almost one year, building from git) but it is so 
> unpractical grab to keyboard and make 3 key press every time I need to 
> switch form browser to Thunderbird etc. :( It degrades 50% of 
> usability for me and every one who is using this capability on non 
> gnome3 system.
You could switch workspaces with Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down, which could solve 
part of your problem. Also, Alt+Tab is mouse and keyboard navigable as I 
said, so you can just click the window you want (as in, press Alt+Tab 
and use your mouse). This includes every window open, but as I said it's 
not quite ideal.
> > As of right now, all shortcuts in System Settings must be set for the
> > Keyboard, so no. Also, I think there's some applications that already
> > use middle-click (Firefox, some games are all I can think of), so
> > setting this to middle-click would cause problems. If It's an extension
> > like you said above, and it if was "middle click on the desktop" instead
> > of just a regular middle click, then I don't see why not.
>
> And this is wrong! I've hoped in Gnome 3 would be this cleared, like 
> in OS X! Why can have one application control over system wide setting 
> as mouse button assignig?! It must be system setting and user 
> decision. This is very very bad.
If you think this should be a main feature, then file a bug on 
bugzilla.gnome.org about it. As I said, what you're looking for could be 
implemented as an extension somehow, and for examples you can look at 
gnome-shell-extensions on git.gnome.org. There are a lot of people that 
come into this mailing list asking for this feature; I'm sure somebody 
will make an extension for it sometime :).