Custom windows ordering

[EcksD33]

Greetings,

I've been loving winger for a while now and one thing I've noticed I was missing was the ability to set a custom order for the windows (both in the dropdown and contextual menus). This means anytime I interact with winger's UI I need to carefully read each entry instead of knowing in advance where each window is in the list.

Currently, there is a workaround, but it requires some effort: a window can be sent to end of the list by closing it (ctrl+w) then reopening it (ctrl+shift+n).

Ideally, this feature should also reorder the order of appearance of the windows in the taskbar, but I think that's outside of what can be done from an extension (if only because that's dependent on the desktop environment being used on the host machine).

[l10nelw]

Thanks for writing in. I will not go for custom order, because it's extra work and complexity for something I believe you can already solve in other ways:

• Use the popup panel; type just part of the name of your desired window to skip hunting through a long list.

• Consider minimizing all windows you don't frequently need. This has the effect of 'pinning' non-minimized windows to the top of the list. Works best when you keep this group tiny. (I'll add this tip in Winger Help on the next update.)

I might however consider adding alphabetical order to help with window hunting.

I definitely plan to add a separator before minimized windows in the Send to Window submenu, to match the popup panel list and also highlight the usefulness of the minimized state for organising windows.