Re: Tabs bug: inactive tabs being overlapped

[Vegard Vesterheim <vegard vesterheim uninett no>]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:47:00 -0700 Daniel M German <dmg uvic ca> wrote:

>  Fernando  twisted the bytes to say:
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>  Fernando> I've kept thinking about it and.. I think that what would
>  Fernando> really be an overload for sawfish and a confusing thing for
>  Fernando> most of the users would be to have a lot of commands of the
>  Fernando> kind of "cycle group" "cycle class" "cycle window" "cycle
>  Fernando> tab" "cycle viewport" "cycle workspace"...
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>  Fernando> I think there are already a lot of ways for sorting.. it
>  Fernando> can get very confusing, most people hardly know how to use
>  Fernando> groups and now they will have yet another concept to
>  Fernando> difference from it... and what's worse, a very similar
>  Fernando> concept (tabs are just like sticked groups).
>
> I recently started hacking iswitch. For those who don't use it, it is
> an add-on to switch windows. It shows a list of all windows and lets
> you scroll through it and use regular expressions to move in it. The
> windows are listed according to the stacking-order.

I'm using waffle (http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Waffle) which combines
the functionality of iswitch with the possibility to start new
applications. This is my favourite showcase when I demonstrate sawfish
for my colleagues. As an avid emacs user, I find it natural to use
incremental search to search in my windows the same way I use I-search
in emacs to organise my buffers. I find that this partially replaces
the need for tabs, virtual desktops, or workspaces.

Is there any specific reason you prefer iswitch over waffle?

 - Vegard V -