I have already submitted a bug for the fact that the last active window is not necessarily the one which receives focus when switching between applications with multiple windows. https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/854643
I agree that bringing the whole group up can be annoying. Particularly when trying to drag and drop between applications. For example: I have two nautilus windows, one occupying the left half of the screen (say a removable device), one occupying the right (say my documents folder). I also have a firefox window maximised, but behind the two nautilus windows. I want to drag a file from the removable device into my documents folder and then upload it to a website by drag and drop. I drag and drop from the removable device to documents fine. But now, I click on firefox, which covers both nautilus windows. So I click on nautilus, which brings up both windows, covering the firefox window. It means I must either move or close one of the nautilus windows to achieve what I want. Maybe you could submit a wishlist entry for this? On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 22:29 -0500, Juan Montoya wrote: > (Assuming 'launcher' is the name of the taskbar on the left...): > > Try this: > Open three explorer windows on different folders and a web browser. > Select one of the explorer windows. > Click on the web browser icon on the launcher. > Click on the explorer icon on the launcher. > Try this several times. > > You'll notice that all explorer windows are brought to top and most > likely the last window your were at is not the one that is active. > It also, sometimes, gives focus to a window that is below the others and > their order is random. > > In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a > stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at > a time instead of the whole group. > > > BTW, I'm new to this list and apologize if this subject has been > addressed before. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
