Some simple ideas for desktop 4.8

[Alex Fiestas]

On Sunday, September 25, 2011 05:28:12 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2011 16:24:25 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > Hi there !
> > 
> > I've been using the default settings for a while now (like 1month) and I'd
> > like to propose a couple changes for 4.8, let's see what are your
> > opinions:
> > 
> > 1-Show the same windows in "Window switcher" and "Taskbar":
> >     Right now by default, Window Switcher is showing only the windows in
> >     the
> > 
> > current desktop while the taskbar is showing the windows in all desktop.
> > This has been very confusing for me since I'm not able to access to a
> > window I'm seeing in the taskbar via Window Switcher.
> > 
> >     I don't care wether we switch both to "Show only windows in this
> > 
> > workspace" or the other way, but both should show the same.
> 
> With window switcher you mean Alt+Tab, right?
Yes, the default "Box" one
> Having those two synced sounds reasonable and I would suggest to go for only
> current desktop as by default it's only one desktop and means less clutter.
Well activating this we have the problem that libtaskmanager is quite broken 
right now, so we must fix it if we turn this option on by deafult.

> without borders you cannot resize the window. 
Yes you can, a small "grabber?" appears on the bottom-right, but I can see how 
that is less usable if you don't know it, though in the other hand that 
solution quite common these days, for example web-textareas.

> Nuno has been begging me to
> improve the situation and maybe I get to do something about it. Anyway this
> is something Nuno has to decide and IIRC he wants to have it on per app
> basis, e.g. Konsole without borders, others with borders.
> 
> Apart from that we can hardly change anything in a general way for window
> decorations. This would have to be completely inside the Oxygen decoration.

Oki, then I will wait to see what Nuno thinks about this :p