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Bug 517429 - Workspace switcher and all-window switcher should be compositorified
Workspace switcher and all-window switcher should be compositorified
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: Iain's compositor
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: iain
Metacity compositor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-19 12:27 UTC by Patrick Ohearn
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:35 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Patrick Ohearn 2008-02-19 12:27:16 UTC 
It would be great if the workspace swithcer had hotness like the alt+tab window switcher.

Ideas:
  * Show a preview of all workspaces when switching, but an actual one rather than just icnos. Might me a bit to large with alots of workspaces (>4?)
  * 'Slide' effect when changing workspace, would add needed hotness.
  * Any other ideas?
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-17 00:12:54 UTC 
I think that's a really good idea-- it's a shame that the workspace switcher (and also the ctrl-alt-tab window switcher), for completeness) don't use the same code.  I doubt it would be hard to implement, but Iain would know.  Iain, I'm sending this one your way...
Comment 2 iain 2008-03-17 01:47:04 UTC 
* Show a preview of all workspaces when switching, but an actual one rather
  than just icnos. Might me a bit to large with alots of workspaces (>4?)

I sort of had this working, but there were issues with Render's scaling that made it screw up. due to the way the alt-tab switcher is written was requiring many ugly hacks in the code, so I never continued working on it.

* 'Slide' effect when changing workspace, would add needed hotness.

I have been thinking about this one recently, would probably not be too hard although I'm not sure how fast Render would be at doing it, but possibly worth trying.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:35:46 UTC 
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