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MATE default window manager
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switch-windows dialog; moving the dialog to better highlight target window? #300

Open quite opened 7 years ago

quite commented 7 years ago

Currently, when repeatedly pressing TAB to move between targets, a black border is drawn around the current target window (the actual window), and if composition is working properly (and turned on) it is also shadowed.

What about moving the actual switching dialog along? On each TAB, the dialog is moved to reside centred above the current target window. This would make is easier to follow the target around, and possibly one's head/eyes are already moving around to follow the highlighted target -- so why distract by keeping the (also changing!) dialog somewhere else? This becomes even more apparent on multi-head setups. Of course, this would have to mean that the switching dialog would initially be placed centred above the currently active window -- no matter which workspace and screen that is, which perhaps is more sane than being placed on the screen of the mouse-pointer (which seems to be the case presently).

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kn00tcn commented 7 years ago

the way it should be is it shouldnt be a black line, all windows should fade except the one highlighted, plus it should show the actual window on tab not release (open a window smaller than a black empty terminal, put that smaller one behind the terminal, hold alt tab until the small window is selected with a useless invisible border)

it will be very confusing to have the dialog change position, some people rely on it for the icon or window title, rather than caring about the visual position of the window (which they can click on to reach it faster anyway)