xfway: added support for alt-tab switcher

[Alex]

Hi Olivier,

 > All that to say, wlroots is probably the easiest way forward,
considering it replicates a lot of the EWMH design that xfce uses on X11.

Great to hear that you would be open for that direction! Would you as
well be fine with having Adlo's changes as a huge MR for xfwm4 sooner or
later (assuming the x11 part will continue to work smoothly)

Asking so, since I think it would be beneficial for Adlo and us to share
the same long-term plans. If the changes have no hope for beeing merged
into the current xfwm4 one day, I suppose it would make sense for Adlo
to rename his project to something else than 'xfwm4', in order to dont
confuse both projects.

@Adlo

 > I ended up with two repos because I’m not sure if I want this to be
an independent project or an official part of Xfce.

Assuming your project will reach a state were it will be good for daily
usage (no matter if it wil be called xfway, xfwm4 or something else), I
suppose it would make sense to have it as an official part of Xfce
sooner or later (hopefully with you as a maintainer). Besides beeing
"official", like that the project could profit from translation support
(Transifex) and various other services.


Cheers,

alex(xcons)


Am 18.07.22 um 09:33 schrieb Olivier Fourdan:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 03:55, adlo <adloconwy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>     ofourdan favours the libmutter route. The advantage is that it
>     would be a familiar ecosystem, as there is already a good
>     relationship between the xfce and GNOME communities. However, this
>     would mean that xfce4-panel and xfdesktop would have to be
>     integrated into the compositor and they would no longer be
>     separate components.
>
>
> Well, I favour whatever works eventually.
>
> If I were to do it myself, I would take the libmutter route, because I
> know mutter's code base quite well (being part of my paid job), but
> reality is I am not actively working on a port of xfce to Wayland
> (spending all my -working- time on Wayland related things already).
>
> All that to say, wlroots is probably the easiest way forward,
> considering it replicates a lot of the EWMH design that xfce uses on X11.
>
> Cheers
> Olivier
>
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