Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:45:37 +0200

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And another similar bug I filed a while ago:
in the expo view, it sometimes isn't possible to distinguish windows containing text documents:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/734253

see this screenshot:
http://ubuntuone.com/p/hSh/

labels on launcher would solve this as well.

On 27.03.2011 13:12, Tomasz Janusz wrote:

Yes, i created smillar bug on Launchpad in last week and we can merge it. And I agree "Expo" effect is pretty, but not quite usefull.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/738288

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Tomasz Janusz

On 26 March 2011 20:11, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I filed bug [1] in unity today, and it was marked 'opinion' by sabdfl as
> it needed more discussion before it could be implemented.
>
> The current way of switching between windows of the same app is
> time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the
> 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then we switch between windows.
>
> Alongside this, it would be good to have a numbered list of running
> windows of an app, in its launcher icon's quicklist. This list would be
> separated from the rest of the quicklist items by a separator line. An
> example of such an implementation is in Gnome-Shell.
>

> Awaiting your comments,
>
> Bilal Akhtar
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740862
>

I agree, I think switching windows in Unity is cumbersome and
frustrating. Windows 7 actually gets this right IMO, if you hover the
application icon you are shown a list of that application's windows.
You can select the window you want in a single click, it's extremely
fast and easy to use.

DockbarX also implements this for GNOME and also gives the option of
window previews instead of a list. I urge anyone who hasn't tried
DockbarX to give it a spin under GNOME 2.x I think it would be a huge
improvement to Unity if this kind of window switching was implemented.

Luke.

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