Cycling windows in Monocle Layout with minimization turned on

esjeon / krohnkite

A dynamic tiling extension for KWin

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Cycling windows in Monocle Layout with minimization turned on #78

Open phddoom opened 4 years ago

phddoom commented 4 years ago

Symptom

What is the expected workflow for cycling windows with the Minimize unfocused windows option?

How to Reproduce

Set Minimize unfocused windows option for Monocle Layout
Press key to cycle/move focus

Expected behavior

I expected with this option selected that using the keybindings to cycle or move focus would cycle through all the windows on the current desktop.

Environment

Distro: Archlinux
KWin version: 5.18.4.1
Krohnkite version: git commit 18e8b62
List of KWin scripts in use: Force Blur, Move Window to Center, Synchronize Skip Switcher with Taskbar

Notes

esjeon commented 4 years ago

Yup, you're right, and this is why it is marked WIP. I'll definitely fix this.

zyf0330 commented 4 years ago

When using Monocle Layout with many windows openning, I minimize some of them to prevent cycle/move focus into these windows. And in another way I don't know what situation Minimize unfocused windows option works for.

matejdro commented 4 years ago

I see two use cases for this features:

Some programs might release resources / stop rendering UI when being minimized and thus wasting less resources when in background
Task Manager widget has an option to filter out minimized windows. That way you would only see background windows if minimization was enabled.

zyf0330 commented 4 years ago

@matejdro You are right. But hope that disable this option won't break the behavior that not switch to minimized window.