RFC: Use Grid as default for KWin's Presnt windows effect

[Jens Reuterberg]

One idea could be to use the size differences and placement mean something. 
Say that I have five windows open, one that I use constantly and one that keep 
checking out every now and then - the placement that would make most 
sense then is to make sure that I as a user can quickest focus on the window 
most probably needed.

So say its a grid sollution - the second most used window should be placed 
nearest to the mouse (under the mouse currents position so that whether the 
window grid was started with a keyboard shortcut or a screen edge it would 
have the same result).
OR by size - where the largest is the second most used and then falling in 
size to the last used (thats the smallest)

On Friday 09 January 2015 09.35.14 Andres Betts wrote:
> Maybe another thing that could help in the case of having a ton of windows
> is to actually have them all be presented and not shaded. So not making all
> of them be dark and only lighten up the one where the cursor is over.
> 
> Maybe in the VDG we could come up with some ideas. You could post it there
> if you wanted extra input.
> 
> -- 
> Andres Betts
> 
> On January 9, 2015 at 9:32:55 AM, Martin Klapetek
> (martin.klapetek at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Andres Betts <anditosan1000 at gmail.com>
> wrote: My only objection to that is that the grid will end up making the
> each window generally smaller until it could be hard to know what window
> represents what content. There are other methods that could be used for
> that, like stacking similar windows close together, or having really good
> typography to name each window.
> 
> Well if you have /that/ many windows, I think neither setting for that
> effect will be good enough :) But I tried with 16 windows on my 1920x1200
> and I can still make out very well what's what
> --> http://paste.opensuse.org/images/4207e18f.png
> 
> There are also still the text labels over the window, so if you cannot tell
> a window by the thumb size, you can just read it (that imo works well).
> 
> Cheers
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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