Reworking the kwin tabbox

[Matthew Woehlke]

Diego Moya wrote:
> 2009/7/16 Martin Gr��lin <kde at martin-graesslin.com>:
>> My idea is that with alt+tab it should work as ever known. But that it is not
>> required to keep alt pressed (keeping it pressed shouldn't harm).
> 
> There's a way to achieve that goal without breaking the normal alt+tab
> quasimode behavior.
> 
> Hold alt + tab as many times as required + release tab = change window
> (same behavior)
> 
> Hold alt + tab + press cursor key + release tab = make tabbox
> persistent. From now on, pressing tab or cursor arrows navigates the
> window list normally, and Enter is required to close the tabbox and
> open the selected window.
> 
> You can add as many extra keys as desired after the initia alt+tab, to
> free the quasimode and "trap" the window for providing additional
> functions.
> 
> For example, hold alt + tab + s + release tab, could activate a
> "search" function among the name (or content!) of the open windows.
> Or: hold alt + tab + k + release tab, could be used as the trigger key
> for the krunner-like extra functions.

Personally, I prefer the solution Maciej and I discussed w.r.t. NWI, 
which is using a different key combination to activate the switcher in 
"release-mod-isn't-confirm" mode. (And that way 'alt(v) tab(v) tab(^) 
arrows(v,^) alt(^)' can still be used w/o adding another key to confirm.)

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