xfwm4 alt-tab interface

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

Vladimir (copied in this answer) has already worked quite a lot on such
a patch (and got some successes), I strongly suggest you get in touch
with him to help.

It's a pretty sensitive issue, as many things can happen while the user
is switching tabs (new windows being mapped, select window vanishing,
etc.)

The requirements are:
- The system must be able to take new windows into account
- It should not crash if the current selected window vanishes
- It should correctly focus the selected window in all cases
- It should not leak memory nor icons
- It should by no mean introduce any weakness in the code
- You should use the same coding style

PS: No need to copy me directly, I am subscribed to the Xfce lists.

HTH,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:17 +0100, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I understand you are the maintainer of xfwm4. I have a small feature 
> request for it: it seems more useful to me if the "alt-tab popup"  shows 
> not only the window you are selecting, but also the other windows 
> available (like for example kde does). I've been trying to create a 
> patch for it by copy-pasting code from the "window list" plugin  into 
> tabwin.c, but this is still fairly rough and messes up focusing (!?) 
> also I believe it should be patched into client.c to make the interface 
> clean. Are you interested in this feature ? Are you interested in a 
> patch written by me (I know a bit of C and gtk, but never done anything 
> with window managers, so it will need to be checked by someone who does) 
> ? And could you please use some inline comments in files like client.c, 
> I have a hard time understanding what happens there.
>