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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unity does support the Shift modifier to go back in both Alt+Tab and
Alt+` (or Alt+~ in your keyboard), but only after you've opened the view
with the normal keybinding (i.e. without shift). This actually seems to
me the same behavior of Firefox (the "shift" version of the key binding
only works after that you've initialized the switcher first).

** Summary changed:

- Alt+Shift+Tilde (~) should switch windows in reverse order
+ Alt+Shift+` (key-above-tab) should switch windows in reverse order

** Also affects: ayatana-design
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368615

Title:
  Alt+Shift+` (key-above-tab) should switch windows in reverse order

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There's a GUI convention for navigation: adding the Shift modifier to
  a hotkey is typically interpreted as 'do the same thing as the hotkey,
  except in the other direction'. Control+Tab+Shift may visit the
  previous Web browser tab. Control+Z+Shift may redo the last edit, and
  so on.

  Ubuntu offers Alt+Tab for switching between windows, and Alt+Tilde for
  switching between windows of the same application. Ubuntu also offers
  Alt+Shift+Tab for switching between windows in reverse order.

  However, Ubuntu, or some odd dependency, neglected to make a
  corresponding Alt+Shift+Tilde hotkey for switching between windows of
  the same application in reverse order.

  Please add this missing hotkey.

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