On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 at 12:29:57 +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:50:40 +0800 > David Maciejak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This patch is fixing the focused next window list order. > > As now, the switching was only working for 2 windows. > > For example, taking 3 windows called A,B,C. > > If the windows list is A,B,C where A is the current focused window. > > Focusing on B will result on switching position A and B, thus C will > > never be the next window. > > For this example the patch is updating the linked list as B,C,A. > > > Hey, > > I think this patch breaks behaviour of Window Maker. > > One thing is that when I change between workspaces it keeps focusing > last created window instead of last used one. > > Other is that it changes focus behaviour, ie, I can't alt-tab between > two windows, now I have to go through whole list to change between two > recently used ones. > For example with windows A, B, C, D (with [A] marking A as focused) > [A], B, C, D > I 'alt-tab' once > A, [B], C, D > I 'alt-tab' once more > A, B, [C], D > where old behaviour would go to: > [A], B, C, D > > I could also choose other window instead of B and I could go back to A > instantly like so > [A], B, C, D > I 'alt-tab' and while keeping alt down, I 'tab' more and end up on let's > say C > A, B, [C], D > now I alt-tab again and with this patch it goes to D > A, B, C, [D] > with old behaviour I am back on A > [A], B, C, D > > I think the old behaviour is more usable. > So I would like to propose reverting this patch
Thanks for the detailed description. I also caught myself doing extra Alt+TABs recently because of this. At first I thought it was a good idea when I saw the patch, but the old behaviour is somehow imprinted on my mind. Reverting. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
