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Open alt+tab window in zones, behaves like multitasking #9550

Open gczark opened 3 years ago

enricogior commented 3 years ago

@gczark can you elaborate more? It sounds similar to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/2303

gczark commented 3 years ago

@enricogior

Instead that alt+tab opens in fullscreen, I prefer it to show only on the active.window=active.zone. So you can switch windows without overlapping inactive windows.

Same as the behavior when you snap one window with win10 multitasking, suggested apps shows in empty zone.

enricogior commented 3 years ago

@gczark I'm still not sure I understand how this would work.

Instead that alt+tab opens in fullscreen, I prefer it to show only on the active.window=active.zone. So you can switch windows without overlapping inactive windows.

This seems to be a request to have a way to alt-tab between windows snapped to the same zone.

Same as the behavior when you snap one window with win10 multitasking, suggested apps shows in empty zone.

This seems to ask a different feature: when a window is snapped to a zone, suggest apps to move them to empty zones.

gczark commented 3 years ago

But apparently, will break the UI in smaller zones, otherwise for smaller zones, show alt+tab in lists, not in grid

enricogior commented 3 years ago

@gczark it's difficult to understand what you are asking, can you please reply to these questions?

Instead that alt+tab opens in fullscreen, I prefer it to show only on the active.window=active.zone. So you can switch windows without overlapping inactive windows.

This seems to be a request to have a way to alt-tab between windows snapped to the same zone, correct?

Same as the behavior when you snap one window with win10 multitasking, suggested apps shows in empty zone.

This seems to ask a different feature: when a window is snapped to a zone, suggest apps to move them to empty zones, correct?

gczark commented 3 years ago

I'll just include screenshots,

For example, my active window is Edge image

Alt+tab opens fullscreen image

If possible, place alt+tab in to active zone image

enricogior commented 3 years ago

@gczark in FancyZones there isn't an "active zone" concept. Do you mean the zone of the current foreground window or an empty zone?

gczark commented 3 years ago

Current foreground window, exactly. Sorry for the spaghetti explanation.

I thought FZ had this active zone thing. Since you've already mentioned, that might be a good addition to implement prior to this feature.