According to your reasoning, and as I already mentioned in my report,
the current behavior makes perfect sense WHEN THE ICON HAS MORE THAN ONE
WINDOW and one of them is already the one with focus.
That is: put the mouse cursor on an icon that has more than one window, one of 
which has already focus. Move the scrollwheel. It switches windows. Ok, makes 
sense (given the "use the mouse wheel to switch between multiple-data display 
element in a GUI", which is a shitty way of using the mouse wheel that 
regretfully has become widespread, but if we accept that, it's consistent).
Now put the mouse cursor on a random icon on the launcher which has only one 
window (there's no data elements to switch between at all). Move the mouse 
wheel => that window gets focus, and you can't give focus back to the window 
that previously had it unless you look for it and click on it. That does not 
make sense and it is an annoyance.

You don't expect the current application to be switched without a
positive click: well that's exactly what happens: current application is
switched with just a movement of the mouse wheel over the icon of
another application.

Having the mousewheel cycle through icons in the whole launcher would
make as much sense as it makes to cycle through tabs within a window
when you place the mouse cursor over any tab of e.g. Google Chrome or
Ubuntu's Terminal and move the scrollwheel: something that I hate and I
would happily get rid of, but it is kind of consistent in that, if you
do that by accident, you can "go back" by moving the wheel back.

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