What about using Alt+Tab to call up the Window preview (Copy Super+W). Continuing to press the key combo would highlight the next/previous window in the sequence, and when you let go of Alt, it goes to the currently highlighted window?
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:05, Ingo Gerth <i...@gerth-ac.de> wrote: > It might be an interesting idea to highlight the current selection in > alt-tab by a similar effect that is currently shown when pressing alt-F1. > The window(s) corresponding to the application would then be shown on the > right hand side of the launcher, with the launcher being permanently > visible. Repeatedly pressing alt-tab would switch through the applications, > as usual. That should not even be too difficult to implement. > > If we would like to take it a step further, there could even be an extra > option to cycle through open tabs, see the current ideas for GNOME Shell > (it's not all that evil...). > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> David Gorski wrote on 04/04/11 19:55: >> > >> > I recently installed Natty on my machine and I was really impressed by >> > how far Unity has come. Everything is smooth and I have almost no >> > crashes. The interface is also very clean. The only item that stands out >> > is the old compiz alt-tab switcher; It looks very odd with the low-res >> > icons and scaled-down windows previews. >> > >> > My solution to this would be to bring up the Unity launcher and show a >> > "highlight" that moves between open applications when alt-tab is >> > pressed. >> > >> > What do guys think about this? >> >> That is an interesting idea. I see two main difficulties, though. >> >> First, Alt Tab has traditionally switched between windows. If it started >> switching between applications instead, that could be extremely >> frustrating. >> >> Second, if it did switch between applications, using the launcher for >> this would be elegant but perhaps not visible enough. Mac OS X 10.0 and >> 10.1 did exactly what you describe, but it was hard to see the >> highlight, so 10.2 introduced a separate overlay-style switcher. >> >> - -- >> mpt >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk2bMR8ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoBeQCgyk7fxJIhwpnGQmIgsDY8jq0/ >> H74AoJ1PYCFOpaUc10vfgMZUhvaQj9Xr >> =y6jf >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Ian Santopietro "Eala Earendel enlga beorohtast Ofer middangeard monnum sended" Pa gur yv y porthaur? Public GPG key (RSA): http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x412F52DB1BBF1234
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