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tilegroups-in-app-switcher is not discoverable #246
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I removed the setting from the GUI [¹] because after using it for some time I thought it kinda sucked... I only noticed downsides after extended use; e.g.
In the end, it looked nice that tile groups are grouped in the app switcher as well. But you use the app switcher to search for and focus one window. While multiple windows may be raised as a group, you will still only interact with one window at a time. So it's easier to look for that window in the default app switcher. That's why I decided to hide I'd like to improve the integration of the tile groups with GNOME Shell in general. For instance showing tile groups together in the overview, dash etc... At that time I may also revisit the app switcher. But those are long-term plans and not happening in the near future. So for now, if you want to use the setting, you need to manually set the gsettings key with [¹] The setting was hidden with v33 (2022-05-07). But it will reappear in the prefs window, if you set the value to true via the gsetting. My intention was to hide it for new users. |
Ah, good to know that the setting was hidden on purpose. One use case when this becomes particularly useful is when you have, say, multiple text editor windows and multiple PDF viewer windows, and one of each gets tiled for a specific purpose (e.g. latex document generation). Then, having the tile group highlighted in the app switcher makes it easy to switch to it without cycling through all open windows. However, one could argue that the use of GNOME workspaces would circumvent this issue altogether. |
The
gsettings
keytilegroups-in-app-switcher
is not discoverable in version 39 of the extension.Even after activating the advanced settings, there is no way to set the key from the GUI.
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