[ icewm-Patches-1745779 ] add another window switching method (taskbar order)

Patches item #1745779, was opened at 2007-06-30 20:33
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Category: another bloating feature
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 4
Private: No
Submitted By: Jiri Bohac (jbohac)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add another window switching method (taskbar order)

Initial Comment:
Hi, this patch adds a new window swithing method that switches windows in the order they apear on the taskbar.

Rarionale: when I see a window on the taskbar that I want to switch to, the most intuitive way to do that is to have a key combination that will do the switching in the order the windows appear on the takbar.

The current methods (KeySysSwitchNext/Prev, KeySysWinNext/Prev) do switching in a completely different order, very unintuitive for this use case. There have been other people requesting something like this in the Tracker (#923054)

Please apply. (And I think it's not really a boating feature! ;-))

Btw: You may want to change the default keys (I used Ctrl+Shift+F1/F2). Personally, I will set it to Alt+Tab, so I don't care what the default will be ;-) Set it to whatever you feel matches best with your default keybinding policies.

Thanks, Jirka

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>Comment By: Jiri Bohac (jbohac)
Date: 2010-10-26 22:01

Message:
Also, for anyone using openSUSE, a patched version of icewm is available
for openSUSE Factory and openSUSE 11.3 in the buildservice:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Ajbohac%3Abranches%3AX11%3Awindowmanagers
Give it a try! ;)

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Comment By: Jiri Bohac (jbohac)
Date: 2010-10-26 21:58

Message:
Just added a new version of the patch:
icewm_taskbar_order_switch_and_move.patch
Changes to the first version:
- renamed configuration variables (left/right instead of prev/next)
- changed default keys for switching windows to Alt+1 and Alt+grave (a
setting I have found the most comfortable by using the patch for over two
years)
- added the possibility to move the taskbar buttons (default keys
Alt+Shift+1 and Alt+Shift+grave)
- minor cleanup, rediff to current icewm version

Pretty please ... any chance of merging this patch? Anything that I need
to change for the patch to be accepted?

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Comment By: Jiri Bohac (jbohac)
Date: 2008-08-06 14:48

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I just wanted to let you know, that after a year of using IceWM with this
patch, I am very happy with it.
At last, I set the keys differently:
KeyTaskBarSwitchNext="Alt+1"
KeyTaskBarSwitchPrev="Alt+grave"

This is conveniently close to Alt+Tab, which I still use in some
situations.
It is nice to have these actions mapped to keys which are sideways
adjacent to each other. Alt+1 switches to the task bar button on the right,
alt+grave (which is just left of 1) will switch to the left.

So if you decide to accept this patch, I would recommend the above default
key bindings.




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