Hello Sergios,
Thanks for your improvement of my proposal. Without a doubt, this would definitely be a more favorable approach since it includes the use case I've described but also facilitates activating any other colour setting a user may desire.
Therefore, I absolutely support your suggestion. Thanks!
I always use a non-transparent, single-colour background because a semi-transparent background makes me feel uncomfortable in that I tend to find it difficult to distinguish between text displayed inside the terminal and text from the window behind (e.g. a website in my browser).
However, I often get situations where you need to type something into the terminal but at the same time you frequently need to look at the window in the background for reference, e.g. when typing longer commands, code, etc.
In these cases, I always wish I could toggle semi-transparency via a hotkey so I can set my terminal to be semi-transparent, type and at the same time refer to what's being displayed in the background window, and, when done, reset my terminal to a non-transparent background.
I think this would come in handy for a many users, making work with the Xfce terminal even more comfortable. Let me know what you think of this proposal.
Thank you very much for your work!
Many people like being able to access and control things using their keyboard because it's faster in many cases. I'm one of those.
While I couldn't name anything else to improve, there's one idea that's been haunting me for over a year. Let me briefly describe my motivation.
One way I very frequently use the Whisker Menu:
SUPER_L
key.Enter
.A keyboard-puristic approach as you see.
Many times I've thought how nice it would be if it were possible to navigate through the menu with the K
(up) and J
(down) keys, as is possible in vim
, less
, etc. Obviously, since hitting only those keys would type the respective letter into the search box, it would only make sense to require the Ctrl
key being held down, too.
I'm not a C/C++ developer, but I think the code section that implements navigating via the arrow keys is in panel-plugin/window.cpp
, from line 712 onwards (alternatively, search for GDK_KEY_Up
). I cannot estimate what effort it would take to implement this, but it would probably make a lot of keyboard purists happy.
Let me know what you think of it. Regardless of your reaction, I greatly appreciate your work and your taking time.