Re: [Wsmanager-devel] Couvert?

[Rich W. <rj...@he...>]

On Friday 16 Apr 2004 00:50, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> I just downloaded the latest arch source and found the new Couvert
> feature. This is really bizarre. Can somebody please explain it to me?
> It displays all windows on the screen at once, and after 4 seconds
> switches to the next workspace and restores the windows. What's the
> point? It's not particularly impressive (because the whole setup seems
> kind of arbitrarily placed on screen - all my windows show up in the
> lower-left quadrant of the screen, and all the desktop icons and such
> still looking normal just make this look strange. Can't you at least
> fade out the desktop icons and dock and such?). Also, I cna click on a
> shrunken window and it activates, but that doesn't actually *control*
> anything. At first I was hoping it was like you click on a window and
> it activates that desktop and brings that window forward, but that's
> not it. It just sits there for 4 seconds and then goes to the next
> desktop.

Its a test feature. Eventually you hit a button, get a preview of all deskt=
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and then can selct the one you want. A la expose. The current code is more =
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a proof of concept version though.

> Also, please stop sucking up new hotkeys without providing a way to
> turn hotkeys off. I have no need for a fast desktop creation hotkey (at
> least, not without a way to remove said fast desktops without going to
> Preferences), yet I can't turn it off. The best I could do was set all
> modifiers to true and setting the key to F12.

Someone sent me a patch for doing this. Unfortunately I can't test it until=
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iBook is returned.

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Rich
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than t=
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 question of whether a submarine can swim."=20
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