[compiz] [PATCH] Add option to switcher plugin for current workspace windows only

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Mon Apr 3 02:57:21 PDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 23:55 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > I've added an initiat_all binding that will show all windows like before
> > and the old initiate option should behave the way you want. The changes
> > are similar to your patch but they allows you to use it both ways
> > without changing an option. Let me know if it doesn't work the way you
> > want.
> 
> That's fine, better than a setting. Though I'm a bit concerned at how 
> many keybindings compiz is starting to use. It already ate my emacs 
> reload-file keybinding, though, scale is pretty enough that I don't 
> really mind :)

We should probably set a lot of them to nothing by default.

> 
> > And btw, workspace is not the appropriate name, compiz currently
> > implements a virtual desktop and multiple viewports.
> 
> I was wondering about that. So how would you refer to the basic concept 
> of multiple virtual desktops ...?

Looking at the EWMH spec, I see that what I called a virtual desktop,
they call a "Large Desktop". So compiz currently implements one "Large
Desktop" and by rotating the cube you change the viewport in this "Large
Desktop". This "Large Desktop" is ONE virtual desktop or workspace.

-David



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