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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: replacement for Alt-Tab dialog
From:       Ra1n <pk20it () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2004-10-08 18:43:44
Message-ID: 4166DFE0.1090604 () yahoo ! it
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zander@kde.org wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Ra1n wrote:
> 
>>zander@kde.org wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:33:58PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Le Mercredi 6 Octobre 2004 11:43, Lubos Lunak a ?crit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Do you know there's the window list popup (Alt+F5)?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I didn't. Happy to learn a new thing everyday about KDE. :-)
>>>>
>>>>Why Lubos is the presentation of the applications list different with 
>>>>Alt-Tab (bigger font, bigger icons) than with Alt-F5 (small fonts and 
>>>>icons) ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Only the icons are smaller for as far as I can see.
>>>Since all desktops are present on the alt-f5 one this seems logical.
>>
>>This seems fair, but if this behaviour could be configurable it could be 
>>better, so you could choose to show only current desktop window, and 
>>then use the cool Ctrl+Tab(that also show icons of the windows opened in 
>>a desktop) shortcut to cycle desktop or the pager.
>>A better way should be use a different shortcut to show the altTab 
>>dialog and keep it on the screen.
>>Or having bigger button on the external taskbar so it could be placed on 
>>a side of the screen hidden (by now the buttons on the task bar are the 
>>same size of alt+f5)
>>Luca
> 
> 
> I would personally rather have scalable icons (svg) for all these and code
> that makes them normally the large (like alt-F5) and makes them smaller if
> the amount of entries gets larger, so everything stays 'fit'.
And you don't have different dialogs, it's the same dialog, but you 
access it differently by different keystrokes(the only difference could 
be showing different desktop windows like the actual alt-f5) or mouse 
movement(this thing could be "docked" into one side of the screen)....cool
Adding your idea of having it scalable(or use window grouping) makes it 
even better
> 
> But if all ideas I had about good usability should be created; then we'd
> be programming for quite some time yet ;)
Heheh you're right, it's the same for me
> 
> Then again; anyone think the above is possible for 3.4? :)  And maybe
> even willing to create it...
I hope, and I think it will be possible since it isn't a great change 
into the code.
Let's see other comments.
Byez

Luca
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