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by asdajksah2123 835 days ago
I think this is a really nice idea. I suspect I will continue using mod + {num} but I love the implementation.

I've always liked OS X's distinction between Alt + Tab which switches between App, and then Alt + ~ to switch between the windows of the apps. While using Windows the number of open windows quickly becomes too large for Alt + Tab to be useful for anything more than switching between a handful of recent windows.

But the problem with the OS X implementation is that after you switch to an app switching between windows is like throwing darts in teh dark. There is no overall context available at all.

Using Alt + Tab to switch between workspaces, and with a tiling window a workspace preview also shows you all teh windows in it, and once you switch to a workspace switching to the window you want is trivial, seems like a novel and significantly improved way to handle Alt + Tab navigation.

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> But the problem with the OS X implementation is that after you switch to an app switching between windows is like throwing darts in teh dark. There is no overall context available at all.

There's also the fact that, IIRC, it brings all the non-minimized windows of the app to the front.

Good point. That really destroys the stability of the spatial layout.