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	thp	2010-10-05 , 22:36
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I've always been annoyed by the small thumbnails in the task switcher for >= 3 open windows. I'd love to have bigger previews, even if this means more scrolling for me. For this, I've written a patch against hildon-desktop - it's pretty straightforward.

Patch: hildon-desktop-2.2.138-1+0m5_big-task-switcher.patch (applies against the source package with the same version number)

Single-column layout looks like this:

Two-column layout looks like this:

How to build in Scratchbox:

Code:

apt-get source hildon-desktop
apt-get build-dep hildon-desktop
cd hildon-desktop-*
patch -p1 < /path/to/patchfile
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

Then scp the resulting .deb to your device, dpkg -i and finally "killall hildon-desktop" as user to reload hildon-desktop (it gets reloaded automatically).

Feel free to improve! I especially like to see the task switcher centering a window after a scroll operation has stopped halfway through (like the panoramic desktop switching).

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