MorphDock seems to be very analogous to the docking tray in
Windows, CDE and KDE.  In all of these systems, you hold 
down ALT and the first time you press TAB, a window pops
up in the middle of your screen with all the icons and a 
text line at the bottom.  The first icon is selected and
the appropriate textual description is displayed.  As 
you continue to hold ALT down, repeated presses of TAB
step through the list of icons.  Releasing either key
activates the selected icon. The newly selected window is
yanked out of the middle of the list and pushed on the
front.  This makes it very easy to switch back and forth
between a pair of windows.  As my case of "shrinking arm
disease" grows worse, I find myself using fully maximized
windows and toggling around with alt-tab.

I think the essential thing is that there is a keyboard
sequence (ctl-tab is used by Windows apps to cyle between
windows in an app) that cycles through ALL of the 
SystemWindows.  I'm sure we could do something better with
the feedback mechanisms.

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Benson [mailto:jb at speed.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:38 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [GOODIE] Morph Dock Revisited version 0.1
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing how you envision this working. 
> First, how do
> you select the a MorphDock on the desktop with the keyboard? 
> Cycle through
> the icons etc.
> 
> Jim
> 
> > I must admit that I am a devoted user of alt-tab on Windows.  It
> > would be nice to get your dock and a keyboard sequence to bop around
> > with.
> >
> > -david
> >
> >
>