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Re: [Ayatana] List windows on hover
Window preview are overrated :P Windows from the same application tend to look the same: chat, terminals, file manager, spreadsheets, text editors, all kinds of documents.
It also breaks the look and feel from the Launcher pop-up.
IMHO, there is nothing easier to scan and search than text in a vertical layout.
Maybe it would be nice to raise the window when you hover an item in the list, so you get the best of both.
On 20 November 2011 20:10, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
<joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Den 20. nov. 2011 21:38, skrev Luiz Felipe Talvik:
Recently I've done task in which I needed to refer to several spreadsheets and other documents. In Unity, changing between the open documents was quite difficult, I had to think to much to find a window and my focus was constantly shifting from the main task.
The Launcher is quite agnostic to multiple window applications, so Unity relies to much on the window manager for this. I found it quite inferior to the more traditional task bar for this type of workflow. I've ended up running another task bar(tint2) to get my work done.
Did you know that you can use alt+BAT (button above tab) to switch between document windows? It's quite efficient.
Jo-Erlend schinstad