WM: grouping applications (TAI)

[Matthew Woehlke]

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> First of all apology on my side, it took so long to get to this mail.

Bah. After I took ~1 month on some of these as well? No apology 
necessary :-).

> On Monday 16 March 2009 22:39:07 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> I would generally say directional switch should default to wrapping
>> (I think you agreed later), okay being an option, and spatial
>> previous/next (and all non-spatial switching) should /always/ wrap.
>> (You can't leave a container with container-scope keys, though,
>> except by going to the parent in switcher.)
> 
> I put here two options. We already discussed how things are nice when 
> with no limits, so I think such strong preference of wrapping is 
> limitation.

Well, I'll point out that *any* means of switching beside the switcher 
(and point-and-click) is new territory :-).

As the alternative, do you mean:
> This one would be better to be at desktop scope:
>> wm-switch-window-{up,down,left,right}
> 
> because it is the best candidate to navigate through all applications 
> regardless the hierarchy.

Hmm... well in that case the name would rather be:
wm-switch-desktop-{up,down,left,right}

(You could do global u/d/l/r as well, but that might be a little too 
confusing ;-).)

I'm not sure I agree, but I don't really object either, especially if 
none of the u/d/l/r are bound by default.

> Ok. I think that with current design of NWI the switcher can be seen 
> as a plugin -- you get the window, show it as you want. So we could 
> configure switcher we would like to use in KDE, like themes, or 
> decorations.

Exactly. (Haven't I been saying that since the start? ;-) )

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