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Kroll	2010-10-09 , 22:46
Posts: 637 \| Thanked: 445 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Kaliningrad, Russia	#211

Originally Posted by Onyros

Hahaha, I think it's meant to avoid all the "+1", "+2" answers.

Mitrandir, you should really develop something like this meant for the desktop. I'd love to have something as fast to switch between open windows on the desktop.

I've tried Skippy and everything, as I'm using very minimalist WMs (DWM and sometimes Fluxbox on Arch Linux) but Telescope is just so fast and working perfectly that I'd love to use something like it, with no bloat whatsoever and all the functionality.

There is a desktop version of Telescope (at least for Ubuntu)...

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Onyros	2010-10-09 , 23:00
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Can you point me to it, Kroll? I don't seem to find it anywhere. If it's working with Ubuntu it won't be a problem with Arch, I suppose.

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Kroll	2010-10-09 , 23:28
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I can't, but Mitrandir can. I know one guy who uses Telescope on Smartq with Ubuntu.

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Mitrandir	2010-10-10 , 04:27
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Yes, Telescope can be easily ported to desktop, and one guy have successfully integrated it into mobile ubuntu running on SmartQ tablet.

But, why you don't like compiz or skippy? They are much more tested on desktop

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Onyros	2010-10-10 , 04:58
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Well, Compiz is overkill for what I want and Skippy is slow, unmaintained for a long time, old!

I bet you you'd have lots of adopters if it is ever introduced at Arch.

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Mitrandir	2010-10-10 , 13:21
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Okay, i will try to check how it will work on desktop

What is the packaging system on Arch linux?

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Onyros	2010-10-10 , 18:51
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Arch uses its own packaging system, its a ports-like system which builds packages from source. So whatever you can build from source and satisfy dependencies (which will be easy since Arch is a rolling-release, bleeding-edge distro) you can most certainly build in Arch.

It also has its own package manager (pacman), which does the binary package management.

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Mitrandir	2010-10-10 , 19:04
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Ok, thanks. Anyway, integrating to Arch is certainly a long-term task

I will try to find time to test Telescope on desktop linux. Actually, i have already tried to run it under KDE and it was working well, except the F5 hotkey to show telescope is not suitable for desktop.

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Kroll	2010-10-10 , 21:44
Posts: 637 \| Thanked: 445 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Kaliningrad, Russia	#219

Usually I use one of the extra buttons on the mouse (for example forward) or corner of the screen to show open windows in Compiz thumbnails task switcher.

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elliott	2010-10-10 , 22:37
Posts: 17 \| Thanked: 6 times \| Joined on Nov 2009	#220

Originally Posted by Mitrandir

Ok, thanks. Anyway, integrating to Arch is certainly a long-term task

If you can get it to build on Ubuntu or whatever and provide build instructions and a source tarball, I can make an Arch package, or at least a PKGBUILD so other Arch users could build the package easily.