Paraselene
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2007, 02:23:04 PM » |
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In fact, I've had another bright idea - effectively a replacement for the existing quicktabbing approach- which I'll run by you, Andrew.
Let's first assume that you adopt the capslock key as the default hotkey (which I propose you should, though it isn't strictly necessary for this idea). Let's also assume that the user has a firefox window open with multiple tabs, and a whole skew of other programs cluttering up their taskbar. If the user were to press the capslock key, type "fire" and hit enter, keybreeze would launch a new Firefox window (assuming it was at the top of the program list). So far, so excellent.
My proposal is that if the user were to HOLD the capslock key down, Keybreeze would shift to a different "quicktabbing mode" (perhaps with a different skin to make it immediately obvious to the user), where typing "fire" would present you with the open windows (-rather than program choices) which either have "fire" as part of their application name, or have "fire" in the caption (in that order of preference, probably). Releasing the capslock key would switch that window to the foreground.
This would be /particularly/ brilliant if it could be used for switching between firefox/IE tabs, too. E.g. typing "fire hotmail" narrows my options down to just the firefox window, hotmail tab.
Ofc, re: implementation, rather than the idea itself- others might not find it easy to type with the capslock key depressed, but that should be customisable in the options:perhaps shift+[hotkey] activates quicktab mode, whereas [hotkey] in isolation activates keybreeze as normal.
Just ideas - I'm not sure how difficult they'd be to implement, and they're presented pretty much as they came to me, but I think there's definitely something to this suggestion.
Paraselene.
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