Someone who believed the system menu should be shorter raised GNOME bug 126674. The basic idea is that the options in the system menu which move the window to adjacent workspaces and to workspaces given their number are unwieldy and complicated.
Since these options all move windows, and since there is an existing manual move [...]
March 20, 2009 – 12:00 am
It’s suggested in GNOME bug 82567 that Metacity could allow a left-click on the titlebar to launch a menu which allowed the user to navigate to the parent, grandparent, or further ancestor of the window. This would only make sense where the window could represent a container which itself was contained in some other [...]
March 12, 2009 – 12:00 am
When GNOME bug 86590 was born, it was a request to make workspaces switch instantaneously when you panned around them using the workspace switcher with ctrl+alt+arrow.
Then that was fixed, and someone else complained that it was too slow, and inconsistent with the alt+tab popup, which doesn’t switch until you let go of alt. They [...]
In GNOME bug 80984 (closely related to GNOME bug 76672), someone is asking for the window manager to help out with drag-and-drop. The problem is that a drag-and-drop operation should not raise the window it begins in, because raising that window could obscure the window you’re planning to drop the object into.
This is [...]
GNOME bug 97725 raises the interesting idea of associating keys with windows. Two differing approaches have been advocated:
Have a set of keys which work to “bookmark” windows, and a corresponding set of keys which mean “jump to bookmark n“.
Have a keystroke which means “bookmark this window using the key I’m about to press”, and [...]
February 7, 2009 – 10:52 pm
Almost everything we bind keys to could be done with an external application via EWMH, and on my computer there’s no perceptible speed penalty. (I’m sure there is on slower machines.) Perhaps there should be a configure switch not to include the code to do everything except the things which pop up switchers (and another [...]
February 7, 2009 – 9:55 pm
I don’t know why switching continues to be a source of squibs, but there it is. In GNOME bug 570817 someone is suggesting a way to walk through workspaces (presumably only populated ones, but that’s not clear) in the same way that hitting and immediately releasing alt-tab moves you to the next window without [...]
February 3, 2009 – 3:18 pm
In GNOME bug 570079, someone suggests throwing away alt-tab entirely to replace it with an external program, specifically superswitcher.
Of course, you can already do this by disabling the ordinary alt-tab action and then assigning superswitcher to be one of the custom commands, but I think they want it shipped that way by default. [...]
January 30, 2009 – 1:17 am
When I posted yesterday’s squib, I really didn’t expect six people to say they’d use it. Someone plaintively left a message on the bug saying “Please make it possible for devilspie to add this feature!” Well, it is possible for devilspie or any other addon to add this feature, and for that reason [...]
January 28, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 152661 someone is asking for the ability to move in a particular direction from a given window (as opposed to from a given workspace). So you could move to the closest window to the right of the focussed window, for example. Apparently FVWM has this feature. (I assume this would be [...]
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