On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:09:38PM -0300, Isaac Dupree wrote:
David Roundy wrote:
1. WindowNavigator
A layout modifier that keeps track of the rectangles of visible windows and a "cursor" point, to allow keybindings for "shift focus up/down/left/right" in a real geometric manner. It's independent of the tiling algorithm used. A key point is that moving left followed by right will always return focus to its original position (except sometimes if the layout of the screen changes when you move focus left).
Please display somehow (a *faint* red border?) the trail of windows that you'll go to with left or right. It annoys me in word processors that I can't see where up or down is going to take me to. Modal badness... (Although with xmonad, I don't put more than a few windows on a workspace and usually use full-screen, so it doesn't actually make much of a difference to me)
I'm afraid that might be complicated, and my experience with ion3 navigation was that it was pretty intuitive. But what you describe shouldn't be hard, it's just that it'd mean that we'd have to keep track of which windows we outlined so as to be able to turn them back. My gut feeling is that the visual clutter will be more harm than gain, but it would be trivial to set the "navigation color" to black. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University