'Cycle through windows' feature request

[Nikolas Arend]

Sami Samhuri wrote:

>* On Tue Sep-07-2004 at 06:36:28 PM +0200, Nikolas Arend said:
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>>On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Nikolas Arend
>><Nikolas.Arend at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>>It would be great, if there was an option to only cycle through those
>>>windows on the desktop, that are currently not minimised. Now if you 
>>>start cycling using Alt-Tab, all windows get included in the cycle, even 
>>>those that were/are minimised.
>>>When I minimise a window, then because I don't want to see it at the
>>>moment. Other users maybe like the current behaviour, so it should be
>>>optional.
>>>      
>>>
>>Same question here: does this have a chance to go into 4.2? This has been 
>>discussed and there's a patch already by Sami Samhuri (see earlier posts), 
>>but it doesn't seem to be in today's (20040907) CVS.
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>This is probably due to one of two things.
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>        1) Oliver doesn't like it.
>or      2) Because I never followed through with the second patch I said
>           I would write.
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>This might not be a good excuse for me not producing what I said I
>would, but after I made the first patch and tried it I realized that I
>did not like the feature as much as I thought I might.
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Well, I consider this a quite basic feature and if Olivier would agree 
to implement it in one way or another,
I might think of doing it myself. I better not promise, maybe I don't 
find the time atm ;-)
Thank you very much for doing the pioneer work, though.


Nick.