Hi Ryan, On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Ryan Prior <ryanpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Pippa Kyle <pippa.k...@canonical.com> wrote: >> Any thoughts on this, and what would be good for Unity? > > For power-users, the more important thing is that the window switcher > applet appear and respond immediately. On my multi-core > name-brand-graphics-card machine, it takes about a quarter-second for > the applet to show after I strike the tab-key. That response time is > totally unacceptable - it shouldn't take more than 0.03 seconds (1 > "frame" of standard 30FPS video) for the UI to respond to a keyboard > shortcut, and ideally should take less time than that. If something in > the current system makes that delay necessary, we should change the > system enough that an immediate response can be given. > > And let's be honest, it's mostly power-users who know and utilize the > alt-tab shortcut for window management.
This behaviour was bothering me, too. I found that there's a 200ms delay, by default. You can change it in CompizConfig Settings Manager: - Go to 'Static Application Switcher'. - Click 'Behaviour'. - Set 'Popup Window Delay' to 0. I have no idea why anyone would want a delay for this operation. I guess it's so that a quick Alt-Tab doesn't show the switcher, but I was finding that, more often than not, nothing would happen when I hit Alt-Tab very quickly. Application switching is nice and snappy with the delay set to 0. Thanks, J. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
