G-dH / advanced-alttab-window-switcher

A highly customizable replacement for Gnome Shell's Alt-Tab window and app switchers.
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[FEATURE] Better explanatory settings for new users #75

Open iksi4prs opened 1 year ago

iksi4prs commented 1 year ago

Motivation:

Coming from as user from 'Windows' , and also where default GNOME installation had "Window switcher" as disabled, took me some time to understand how the extension work and how to config it. I was changing the configuration of the "windows switcher", while in fact, the GNOME shell invoked the "application switcher". I think the next small changes in settings page will be helpful for other users.

Suggestion 1) Add prefix text in page of the switchers: "Note: GNOME supports 2 separate switchers: 'Applications switcher' and 'Windows switcher', which are triggered by different keyboard shortcuts" 2) Add value of keyboard shortcut (in read only field) which is used by GNOME shell 3) Add indication, if the extension's switcher is active, for example: a) if disabled, show background of shortcut in red b) if enables, show background of shortcut in green c) clicking value of shortcut, will show message box with instructions how to change (text that already appears in page)

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G-dH commented 1 year ago

Thanks, I think people will be confused until I add the option to set keyboard shortcuts directly in AATWS Settings.

iksi4prs commented 1 year ago

@G-dH , if this is possible then its better. I just thought of "quick" fix of showing more data, without changing logic of app.