Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] Horizontal grouping/scrolling

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:23:28 -0700

On Apr 21, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Beery Holstein <[email-masked]> wrote:

> So is there a way to have the list horizontal?

Not at present; we've got it on the list of possible features for Witch 4 (no date set).

regards,
-rob.

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From: Beery Holstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:25:49 -0700 (PDT)

On Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:57:34 PM UTC+2, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:57 AM, Herman van Boeijen wrote: 
>
> > I'd imagine the bottom flyout only when there's multiple 
> windows/documents in the app. And when it's popped out, the last front 
> window should be listed and selected first. 
>
> Yes, that would be the general idea, but making it work, and work 
> smoothly, is our challenge. If we can find a way that works well, we'll do 
> our best to include such a feature in the next major release of Witch. 
>
> regards, 
> -rob.

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From: Herman van Boeijen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:14:21 -0800 (PST)

Ha! You guys rock at smooth so I'm not worried. My only concern is that I 
might fall outside your target audience when you implement any features I 
can't switch off.

Looking at my description there, I think a good separation to make is:
• Bring forward all windows of an app when Just the tab / § shortcuts are 
used.
• Bring forward just the selected window/document if the A/Z shortcuts are 
used

Thanks again!

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:57:34 -0800

On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:57 AM, Herman van Boeijen wrote:

> I'd imagine the bottom flyout only when there's multiple windows/documents in the app. And when it's popped out, the last front window should be listed and selected first.

Yes, that would be the general idea, but making it work, and work smoothly, is our challenge. If we can find a way that works well, we'll do our best to include such a feature in the next major release of Witch.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Herman van Boeijen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:57:39 -0800 (PST)

Hi! How about this? I prefer to keep my hand stationary on the keyboard, so 
I imagine A&Z are good candidates for switching windows inside an app.
I'd imagine the bottom flyout only when there's multiple windows/documents 
in the app. And when it's popped out, the last front window should be 
listed and selected first.

I rarely keep a lot of photoshop windows open but when I do, *I could 
totally see this being practical.*

:) Please use this!

*Thanks!*

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:22:38 -0700

On Oct 30, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Morgon wrote:

> hardcore Mac folks) is to have the window title below the icon groups,
> that way you don't run into space issues. Unless, of course, this type
> of design is held back by technical issues that I'd have no insight
> into.

We're going to try to come up with something, so it's officially "on our list." How successful we may be ... remains to be seen :).

regards,
-rob.

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From: Morgon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:37:58 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Rob, thanks for the response.
My idea (and again, I don't know how much of an insult this is to
hardcore Mac folks) is to have the window title below the icon groups,
that way you don't run into space issues. Unless, of course, this type
of design is held back by technical issues that I'd have no insight
into. :)

Thanks again!

On Oct 30, 2:32 pm, Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Morgon wrote:
>
> > Just came across Witch, and it's been very helpful to make the switch
> > from Windows to Mac. Quite puzzling to me that OSX would only do
> > application switching (I never know which Chrome window I'll return
> > to!).
>
> > In any case, what's the chance that there could be a horizontal tab
> > option, like native OS X (and obviously Windows)? I think that would
> > allow for even greater comfortability with platform switching.
>
> We're discussing something horizontal in Witch 4, but the big problem is that the number of open windows will typically greatly exceed the amount of space available for those windows in a horizontal layout ... so it'd need some fancy tricks to work elegantly. But we're looking into it.
>
> regards,
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:32:01 -0700

regards,
-rob.

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From: Morgon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:49:49 -0700 (PDT)

Greetings,

Thanks for your time!
-Morgon