Description: iswitchwin lets you easily switch between windows on your workspaces by typing (part of) the caption of the desired window. It has been inspired by iswitch-window.jl originally written by Topi Paavola for Sawfish window manager. iswitchwin uses libwnck to control your window manager and has been primarily written for Metacity and Gnome environment. It should work with any EWHM compatibile window manager.
we have alt-tab (which in kde looks better and is more usable compared to other windowmanagers because it is vertical instead of horizontal);
we have kompose;
we can assign shortcuts to every window;
a mouse-over on the pager shows all windows;
we have the windowlist;
but this is KDE so if anyone could use it, we might add it.
as it is now, this is NOT a KDE improvement, as it is for gnome. gnome might need it like it needed dbus (but kde has dcop) like it needed gstreamer (but kde had arts) and like much other stuff. i think KDE has enough ways of finding your desired window, sorry.
I'm not going to get into flames with you, but just to clarify:
1) dbus is not for gnome, it's freedesktop.org thing
2) dbus is working fine in KDE without any special tweaks, tried in kubuntu
3) iswitchwin works with KDE (except some focus problems that are related to X themselves), no reason why I should not consider it an improvement for KDE, I know at least one person who uses it under KDE :) (and no, it's not me) :-)
about d-bus, i didn't say it is FOR gnome, merely the gnomes adopted it because they had no choice. KDE has dcop which is generally better. check for an example http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1752
and this happens often, like with gstreamer.
anyway, if this works with KDE and ppl like it, it's an kde improvement, yes. i just wonder how usefull it is, taking all current ways of window management in account.
Alt + tab,
but Alt + tab is going to be much faster and convenient, you dont have to take your hands off the keyboard to go mousing.
So I am sure newbies and the GUI people would like this but it should not take away from the convenience of hot key use
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You think it's fast ? :p
You can make a script using "wmctrl" (to list windows) and kdialog (to choose a window by typing its name) to "implement" the idea, and use it instead of alt-tab (associate a hotkey with your script). You'll see if it's as fast as you imagine.
the main purpose of iswitchwin is to make the navigation among multiple windows easy using only the keyboard, you don't have to touch the mouse at all.
just bind iswitchwin to a hotkey and when you activate it start typing for example 'pdf' and the list shrinks to show only the windows having 'pdf' in their title, aterwards you can use Tab, Shift+Tab, Up, Down and Enter to navigate+switch to the desired window
HTH, Martin
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we have alt-tab (which in kde looks better and is more usable compared to other windowmanagers because it is vertical instead of horizontal); we have kompose; we can assign shortcuts to every window; a mouse-over on the pager shows all windows; we have the windowlist; but this is KDE so if anyone could use it, we might add it. as it is now, this is NOT a KDE improvement, as it is for gnome. gnome might need it like it needed dbus (but kde has dcop) like it needed gstreamer (but kde had arts) and like much other stuff. i think KDE has enough ways of finding your desired window, sorry.
I'm not going to get into flames with you, but just to clarify: 1) dbus is not for gnome, it's freedesktop.org thing 2) dbus is working fine in KDE without any special tweaks, tried in kubuntu 3) iswitchwin works with KDE (except some focus problems that are related to X themselves), no reason why I should not consider it an improvement for KDE, I know at least one person who uses it under KDE :) (and no, it's not me) :-)
about d-bus, i didn't say it is FOR gnome, merely the gnomes adopted it because they had no choice. KDE has dcop which is generally better. check for an example http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1752 and this happens often, like with gstreamer. anyway, if this works with KDE and ppl like it, it's an kde improvement, yes. i just wonder how usefull it is, taking all current ways of window management in account.
Alt + tab, but Alt + tab is going to be much faster and convenient, you dont have to take your hands off the keyboard to go mousing. So I am sure newbies and the GUI people would like this but it should not take away from the convenience of hot key use :0
if you have lots of windows on screen this could be very useful I think it's a good idea
You think it's fast ? :p You can make a script using "wmctrl" (to list windows) and kdialog (to choose a window by typing its name) to "implement" the idea, and use it instead of alt-tab (associate a hotkey with your script). You'll see if it's as fast as you imagine.
ah damn I haven't seen it was already done, forget my previous comment
the main purpose of iswitchwin is to make the navigation among multiple windows easy using only the keyboard, you don't have to touch the mouse at all. just bind iswitchwin to a hotkey and when you activate it start typing for example 'pdf' and the list shrinks to show only the windows having 'pdf' in their title, aterwards you can use Tab, Shift+Tab, Up, Down and Enter to navigate+switch to the desired window HTH, Martin