Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] cycling through window jumps when multiple windows have the same name

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 22:41:11 -0700

On Jul 10, 2018, at 4:08 PM, David Rees <[email-masked]> wrote:

> close. The older version made it lightening quick. Perhaps Witch could do the closing async? Contexts seems to reflect a close much faster than Witch for example...

Email me off list, as I have a version for you to test.

regards;
-rob.

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From: David Rees <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:08:58 -0700 (PDT)

Note, I am really missing the multiple window closing in the previous Witch 
version. It can be quite time consuming to close a lot of windows at once 
since the user has to wait for each one to close. The older version made it 
lightening quick. Perhaps Witch could do the closing async? Contexts seems 
to reflect a close much faster than Witch for example...

On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 11:41:19 AM UTC-8, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2017, at 8:14 AM, David Rees <[email-masked] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > I assume because Witch is indexing the selection using the window name. 
> Perhaps it could use window id instead? 
>
> It's on our to do list (there's a longer backstory on why we do what we 
> do, but it's not worth the trouble). 
>
> > PS, I remember there being a behavior where after closing the window 
> stayed in the list with a red X. So the user could delete several windows 
> at once without the list updating. That was very handy for deleting lots of 
> windows at once. Did that feature get removed? Or am I thinking perhaps of 
> a different app (it was a while ago)? 
>
> It did get removed in the interest of simpler more-stable code, basically. 
>
> regards; 
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 11:41:17 -0800

On Dec 3, 2017, at 8:14 AM, David Rees <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I assume because Witch is indexing the selection using the window name. Perhaps it could use window id instead?

It's on our to do list (there's a longer backstory on why we do what we do, but it's not worth the trouble).

> PS, I remember there being a behavior where after closing the window stayed in the list with a red X. So the user could delete several windows at once without the list updating. That was very handy for deleting lots of windows at once. Did that feature get removed? Or am I thinking perhaps of a different app (it was a while ago)?

regards;
-rob.

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From: David Rees <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 08:14:10 -0800 (PST)

I have noticed Witch has a small bug with "<Select next item> after closing 
a window" when there are multiple windows with the same name. 

As an example, see the following list. If inside Witch the user closes 
window #4 then Witch correctly selects #5 next. If user closes #5 however 
it jumps to #3 rather than #7. This can be troublesome if the user wanted 
to close several windows in a row. If they select #5 and close three times 
they will close 5,3,4 rather than 5,6,7 as they intended. 

1) Stuff - Gmail
2) Photos
3) Messages
4) Cool Place - Maps
5) Activity Monitor
6) Messages
7) Restaurant 1 - Yelp
8) Restaurant 2 - Map
9) Movies
10) More Movies

PS, I remember there being a behavior where after closing the window stayed 
in the list with a red X. So the user could delete several windows at once 
without the list updating. That was very handy for deleting lots of windows 
at once. Did that feature get removed? Or am I thinking perhaps of a 
different app (it was a while ago)?

Thanks!
dave