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Swap windows

Open azarakovskiy opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

A function that swaps two windows.

The issue i'm solving is the following:

  • My screen on the left is big, and I don't like turning my head to the left :D
  • I have two windows there, one of them is usually in my focus, and then another one. Like a debug panel and a console.

Implementation:

  • Select a window and hit mesh+s, save the window ID
  • Select another window. mesh+s will now swap it with the first one
  • Hitting mesh+s on the first window, removes the saved ID and resets the swapping pair

azarakovskiy avatar Jul 13 '23 13:07 azarakovskiy

Hey @azarakovskiy,

Thanks for the PR. In general I like the idea of being able to swap two windows, but I find the usage a bit complicated. I installed it locally, but don't find the usage very intuitive. The showing of letters is pretty cool, but I struggled to select two windows, as well as to un-assign one.

I wonder if there's a more intuitive / simpler way to approach this. One way to validate it is to write documentation on how to use the feature, I think the current implementation requires quite some explanation for others to understand.

I'll give it some thought, but feel free to come up with a simpler approach as well.

Apart from that:

  • I prefer all additional features outside of the standard ShiftIt features to be opt-in (like this one)
  • Add some tests to validate the code of the feature
  • Update the readme documentation so others can use it too.

But I would park these until after a more intuitive approach is found :)

peterklijn avatar Aug 03 '23 19:08 peterklijn