On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Florian Kuhnt <florian.ku...@gmx.de> wrote: > Great work! > > Am Sonntag, den 03.07.2011, 19:07 +0200 schrieb privacy: >> I have written an extension for selecting windows in overview mode with >> arrow keys. When you are in overview mode and press an arrow key, the >> most recently focused window will be selected and highlighted. As soon >> as you have navigated to the desired window you can press ENTER for >> activating the window or DELETE for closing it. Mouse events and other >> key events will terminate the selection process. I think the navigation >> logic should work with any window placement strategy and multiple >> monitors should also be supported. > > Seems to work with native-window-placement-extension. Maybe in one case > the selection algorithm could be improved a little bit: > > When a window is placed and selected on the left of the screen and > another one is placed below it but a bit even more left, it's not > selectable by left-key, only by down-key. I think left-key would be > practical in that case, especially if you have a lot of windows and want > to choose the most-left window. Maybe this could be fixed without > breaking other cases? > > I'm not sure if I will use it, but it enables > one-finger-key-pressing-window-switching what can be useful in some > cases. Maybe switching workspaces and organizing windows on workspaces > would be another nice feature? (for example arrow-key workspace > switching by going all over to the right and window dragging via shift). > > On the other hand - is there a reason why such a feature isn't > integrated into core gnome-shell?
I think we'd all want better keynav in the overview. See bug 644306[0]. Would you like to make this into a patch, Paul? > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644306 -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
