Review Request: Change activity by rolling the mouse wheel over the showActivityManager widget.

[Guillaume DE BURE]

Le mardi 27 décembre 2011 22:09:33 Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= a écrit 
:
> On Tuesday 27 December 2011 21:49:24 Guillaume DE BURE wrote:
> > I use the keyboard shortcut (meta + tab) quite often. However I remember
> > once someone (maybe, marco ?) proposed an "exposé like" effect, with
> > activities as rows, and desktop as columns. That could be extremely 
useful,
> > especially for dragging windows between desktop / activities. Does that
> > still sound like a good idea ? Would it be difficult to do ?
> There is one problem with that: when an activity is closed we do not know 
> which windows are there. If an activity is suspended we most likely due not 
> have a pixmap for this window as the driver discarded it for the long time 
> unmapped window. So unless someone has a genious idea how to get thumbnails 
of 
> non existing windows, it will be difficult to implement :-)

Thought this was just relevant for running activities... But maybe you could 
start activities from there also ? No sure you would need preview for non 
running activities, that might just confuse the user, no ?

> 
> (The genious idea might be as simple as storing screenshots from the window 
> when it got closed, activity switched, whatever. 4.9 will hopefully see nice 
> QML bindings in KWin, so that might be implementable. Help welcome)
> 
> Cheers
> Martin