windows switching

[Olivier Fourdan]

Especially for X, because AFAIK X has not transparency (oh, and yes, I
know about Keith's server)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> It seems you forgot the patch ;-)
> 
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:56:34AM -0400, Scott Rubin wrote:
> > I agree.  The current alt-tabbing is not visually intuitive.  To fix it 
> > I suggest a few things.  First, what has been suggested before.  The 
> > small alt-tab box that displays in the middle of the screen should show 
> > the icon and/or thumbnail of the window you are switching to.  The text 
> > in the box we have right now is no good.  Second, instead of 
> > highlighting the border of the soon to be active window do this.  When 
> > alt-tab is pressed every window is set to have transparency of 85% or 
> > so.  The focused window will have 0 transparency.  It will be very very 
> > easy to tell which window will come to the forefront this way.  You 
> > might even be able to forego the box with icons/thumbnails in it if this 
> > is implemented well.  Some sort of hint of color in the pager may be 
> > helpful for people who keep their eye down there.  Lastly there should 
> > be an option in the control center to toggle alt-tabbing across virtual 
> > desktops.  I know some people who really want that feature.
> > 
> > Ok, that's all I got, discuss.
> > 
> > -Scott
> > 
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