GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635989
Add a search provider for the session's current windows.
Last modified: 2017-01-05 18:01:05 UTC
This will allow quick window switching with the keyboard without using alt-tab.
Created attachment 175416 [details] [review] Add a search provider for the session's current windows.
Jon - can you take a quick look and see if you think this is useful as is, or will need more design and tuning? Trying it out, some thoughts: - Case matching isn't quite right - if I have a window called 'XChat: ....' then typing 'XChat' does find it, I have to type 'xchat' - In the case where windows and applications line up - if I type 'xchat' - it's confusing when there are two things shown and clicking on either one does the same thing. - It would be perhaps a lot more useful if it was searching browser tabs as well. - The display as an app icon + a very short ellipsized part of the title feels wrong to me. I think we might actually want a generously large window thumbnail.
Doesn't seem like a by-default thing at least. Though I think a "search windows by hotkey" would make a decent extension, or possibly in-core with an undefined keybinding? Or we could actually define it to be Super-w or something, though right now Super-<k> for all values of k is aren't taken, not sure what the ramifications of starting to claim keybindings there would be.
(In reply to comment #2) > Jon - can you take a quick look and see if you think this is useful as is, or > will need more design and tuning? > > Trying it out, some thoughts: > > - Case matching isn't quite right - if I have a window called 'XChat: ....' > then typing 'XChat' does find it, I have to type 'xchat' Fixed locally here. > - In the case where windows and applications line up - if I type 'xchat' - > it's confusing when there are two things shown and clicking on either one does > the same thing. OK. > - It would be perhaps a lot more useful if it was searching browser tabs as > well. Not my job :) > - The display as an app icon + a very short ellipsized part of the title feels > wrong to me. I think we might actually want a generously large window > thumbnail. In some cases we get a wrong-sized app icon, but yeah. I just added it here because I liked being able to hit Super and type a window to switch without taking too long. Maybe an additional non-overview search would be helpful? (Super-space feels "right" to me) My next part of this patch was going to see if I could drag applications and windows to the workspace selector on the right when that lands, but it looks like it will only be in the Windows tab.
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This is a excelent idea: search by title of windows to switch to this open app.
Created attachment 186825 [details] [review] Add a search provider for the session's current windows
*** Bug 673356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From duplicate bug: The ‘search window’ extension allows switching windows by typing their title in the Activities overlay. I think this is such logical functionality to have, that it should be enabled by default in Gnome Shell. https://github.com/charleso/gnome-shell-extension-search-window
Extensions can do this perfectly well.
(In reply to comment #10) > Extensions can do this perfectly well. Uhm, well yes, they might. But IMNSHO it's inconceivable why this isn't core functionality!
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