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Support 3-finger swipe to invoke AltTab #756
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Hey @klarasch! Glad you enjoy the app! Your feature request reminds me of the discussion in #730. I think I would probably want to implement those together. I need to get my hands on a Windows laptop to experience that gesture UX though. For now I've no idea about its details, and god knows details matter with these kinds of interactions.
It will never, unfortunately. The app uses a number of private APIs to achieve its functionality. There are no public APIs to manipulate Spaces, and that made my work very hard at the beginning. Now I've found enough private APIs, and they seem stable over macOS releases, so the app works. But because of that it can never be distributed on the MAS. Thanks for the feature request. I think it's a great proposal. I need to check out how Windows 10 does it, then see what it would mean for AltTab in terms of maybe new preferences, and implementation details that make sense on the mac platform. |
Hey, thanks for the response and yeah, apologies! I overlooked that issue. Yes, it's described well there. I understand it may be pretty complicated to implement, though, and it's just a suggestion, the app takes the great experience further than Windows in many aspects already. :) Fingers crossed you're able to get your hands on it (just given what a variable quality touchpads on Windows have, sometimes it's very nice to use it – such as on my private laptop, Mac is my work laptop – and sometimes it's better to avoid it :D) and that it turns out not so complicated to make (though that's not a big hope:D). Meanwhile, this guy on YouTube https://youtu.be/U2CQ9CWP5mE?t=155 shows it quite well. I understand with the App Store :) for me it's easier to brew it anyway! |
I think you described it pretty well! Indeed, you trigger it with 3 fingers left/right and then have the freedom to choose window to focus 360. What you're proposing sounds great! Only IMO most users wouldn't use the 2 fingers option as that would interfere with basic scrolling, history navigation etc. which I think everyone uses and wouldn't like to override. I personally also would keep one of three or four-finger swipe handled by system to be able to switch spaces, so I personally would set only the 3 finger swipe as Gesture 1 and would like to not use the Gesture 2. I would ideally like to have other settings same as the Shortcut 1. Thank you so much for investigating the options! ❤️ |
It costs nothing to add the flexibility I think, since we need a UI anyway to share which gesture is used. that being said, I think you're right that 1 or 2 fingers is pushing it, as these are really basic. Imagine someone not using Spaces. They could use The idea is that, for the same reason people may want 2 shortcuts that show different types of windows, users may want 2 swipe shortcuts that show different types of windows. Actually writing this made me realize we could let the user even chose the direction on top of the finger count. Like 2 dropdowns in a row:
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This way a user could have 1 type of shortcut for left, and another for right, or any other combination that makes sense in their mind |
@lwouis Love your creation, can you enable sponsors for this repo or share other ways to help you add three-finger swipes? Looking forward to an even more seamless app switching experience, thanks again! 😄 |
@MaskyS thank you for your kindness. I don't take donations at the moment. The best way to get tickets flowing faster would be other people than me contributing code. Not many people do, and i become the bottleneck. This project is my weekends and nights, which i can't always devote to it. Money wouldn't accelerate things as i don't need money. More collaborators would be helpful as well as delightful |
Just a small $0.02 contribution:
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@juarezr this sounds interesting. I'm having trouble picturing the UI of this new approach though. Could you maybe share a mockup of what that would look like? |
Hey @juarezr! Thanks for sharing these cool mockups! I recorded a video response. Addendum to the video: I think your proposed UI changes would benefit more from being in the context of #351 |
Hi @lwouis , The mockup did had two main points:
This will explains the Trigger/Action metaphor used. Also one could use additional gestures for navigation / selection. The secret will be we exploring alternatives. 😉 |
Wonderful app as it is, but this would be a great addition... My work laptop is Windows so I find myself constantly using three fingers to swipe between windows on my personal Mac. Thanks for all your hard work! |
Thanks for all the work creating this app, it's truly amazing! I've been using windows my whole life and this app made switching to mac so much easier. I really, really hope this functionality gets added sometime soon :) |
Any updates on this? Hope it's added soon! |
@aphexetwine please see #1179 |
First of all, thank you so much for developing this tool, just switched from Windows and couldn't understand how folks on MacOS can live without switching windows, not apps and how Mission Control doesn't have window selection through keyboard and ability to close windows from there. So frustrating to go to each windows individually to close it – and so painfully slow. Your tool takes it even further (closing apps by shortcut, I'm in love!) I might've switched back, hadn't found this. Thank. You. ❤️
One thing that keeps it from complete perfection (and not sure it's possible, but hopefully given BetterTouchTool is tiny close to this) is Windows' ability to trigger the alt-tab menu by swiping with three fingers left or right. I would like to have default MacOS four-finger swipe to switch desktops, but three-finger (horizontal, would like to keep Mission Control and Exposé on vertical) swipe to trigger alt-tab menu and then select the window by hovering over it with the three fingers, i.e. the same logic Windows use. Currently by default, both three- and four-finger swipe does the same on MacOS – switches desktops; such a wasted gesture distinction.
Thank you for considering this suggestion!
(sorry if this was already suggested, checked the other issues though!)
PS: if this makes AppStore, I'd pay and I don't like paying for apps; this is far more life-improving than most of paid stuff there
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