[patch] Reverse Task Switch (Alt+Shift+Tab)

[Dan Compton]

I have a few questions.  First, how am I suppose to get the CVS HEAD?  
I've noticed talk on these dev message lists about the CVS being moved 
from the sourceforge.net server to a new server.  And I read that there 
is no anonymous login support for the new server yet.  Also, the details 
haven't been updated on the xfce.org webpage.  I have a patch to add 
reverse task switching by pressing the Shift key.  The problem is since 
I don't have access to CVS, I just have this patch for xfce_4_0.  If 
anyone wants to try it out on 4.0.0, here is the patch (apply with 
"patch -p0 < xfwm4-4.0.0.new.patch" from the directory above the 
xfwm4-4.0.0 directory).

The new feature is that while in the "Alt-Tab" (or whatever key you bind 
it to) task switching mode, you can press Shift to go in reverse.  If 
Shift is in your task switch key already, then it doesn't change the 
behavior.  A dedicated key for reverse switching tasks was difficult to 
make because of all the key modifier junk and it would be much uglier, 
although it can be done.

Dan Compton


Biju Chacko wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:04:29 -0500, Dan Compton wrote:
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>>I'd like to introduce myself to the Xfce developers because I'd like to 
>>possibly contribute some of my work to Xfce in the future.  My name is 
>>Dan Compton; I live in Georgia, USA; I attend Georgia Tech.  I'd like 
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>Nice ta meetcha! ;-)
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>>any hints/tips/links to information regarding contributing new 
>>features/changes to Xfce.  I made a short post in response to a thread 
>>in the Xfce mailing list stating that I was working on adding the new 
>>Expose (accent) features of Max OS X 10.3 (Panther) to Xfce4's xfwm4.  I 
>>will also try to add Shift+Alt+Tab support to the cycle windows in order 
>>to scroll backwards between the windows.  And, I might add the display 
>>of the icon in the tabwin as well.  Anyways,  I know Oliver wrote all 
>>(or majority?) of xfwm4 and I wanted to see what his thoughts on this 
>>are.  Also, I'm doing my changes to xfwm4-4.0.0.  Should I use a later 
>>CVS version Oliver?
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>The best way to get feedback on your ideas is to post a patch with your changes
>to this list. Of course, your patch might get rejected -- but that's life. ;-)
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>If you are doing feature additions, make changes to cvs HEAD. If you are making
>bug fixes, you need to do them against HEAD and xfce_4_0.
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>HTH,
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>-- b
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