On 06/05/2014 09:19 AM, Iain Patterson wrote:
Quoth Yury Tarasievich,
Oh well. Still this isn't cycling, we find
cycling alt-tab in other platforms GUIs, all
right?
I'm not dead set on the word "cycling" I just
want us to be consistent about what we do use.
Consistency is a big problem in OSS as a class,
anyway.
Having said that I do think that "cycling" is
fine because if you keep pressing FocusNextKey
you keep on iterating through the window list
To repeat myself, if you do one-off alt-tab, do
you get cycling? In fact, you get the opposite,
or, at least, not cycling through the initial set.
When you work with switch panel activated, you
get additional visual element, which doesn't
change the base logic of the action, but
provides additional controls.
This just doesn't boil down to "cycle", this is
broader than just "cycle", but then again,
having had worked on l10n for a while, I just
might have a somewhat different perspective on
this...
BTW, I still remember this little change of
logic of alt-tab behaviour was quite a source of
confusion to me in days of transition from
os2/win guis. These days, I rely on this feature. :)
but if you want to call that "switching" instead
then I won't object as long as you can convince
everyone else that it's worth changing.
Well, I won't put any additional effort into
this worthy task.
It's sort of people problem, not argument
problem: changes on the scale of this are
disproportionally hard to negotiate.
If we do change it we'll probably need
different text for the new preference because
"Show switch panel when switching windows" is a
bit weird. Just "Show panel..." maybe?
There are lots of panels, which one do you have
in mind? :)
Yury
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