Re: 'Cycle through windows' feature request

On 09/08/04 17:51, Nikolas Arend wrote:
> Sami Samhuri wrote:
> 
> >* On Tue Sep-07-2004 at 06:36:28 PM +0200, Nikolas Arend said:
> > 
> >
> >>On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Nikolas Arend
> >><Nikolas.Arend@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>It would be great, if there was an option to only cycle through those
> >>>windows on the desktop, that are currently not minimised. Now if you 
> >>>start cycling using Alt-Tab, all windows get included in the cycle, even 
> >>>those that were/are minimised.
> >>>When I minimise a window, then because I don't want to see it at the
> >>>moment. Other users maybe like the current behaviour, so it should be
> >>>optional.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Same question here: does this have a chance to go into 4.2? This has been 
> >>discussed and there's a patch already by Sami Samhuri (see earlier 
> >>posts), but it doesn't seem to be in today's (20040907) CVS.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >This is probably due to one of two things.
> >
> >       1) Oliver doesn't like it.
> >or      2) Because I never followed through with the second patch I said
> >          I would write.
> >
> >This might not be a good excuse for me not producing what I said I
> >would, but after I made the first patch and tried it I realized that I
> >did not like the feature as much as I thought I might.
> > 
> >
> 
> Well, I consider this a quite basic feature and if Olivier would agree 
> to implement it in one way or another,
> I might think of doing it myself. I better not promise, maybe I don't 
> find the time atm ;-)
> Thank you very much for doing the pioneer work, though.

we're already in feature freeze for 4.2, so i doubt we'll be seeing this
any time soon, especially if olivier wasn't too keen on it at the time.

        -brian
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