Re: Arrow key window selector extension.

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Florian Kuhnt <florian kuhnt 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?

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[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644306

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 Jasper