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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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

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Title:
  Unity alt+tab unclear, improvemet suggestions.

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

Bug description:
  When using alt+tab to switch between many tabs, at a glance, it is
  unclear which icon is currently highlighted. When using Alt+tab
  shortcut to do a rapid switch - as most people do - I often end up
  bringing the wrong programme to focus.

  To put it another way, when I hold Alt and hit tab, tab, tab, tab, tab
  - it is unclear what programme will jump to the front when I release
  Alt.

  There is two reasons for this.

  1. The current item is marked by a white glow, and the title of the
  application is written in small white letters below.

      - my eye is looking at the icons, not the writing below, so in the split second before I release Alt I am blind to it.
      - the white glow stands out less then brown background around firefox, the red around settings, the yellow around display, the grey around others and so on. So in a split second I have to decide if its a glow or a background colour.

  2. The item after the one currently selected is animated. I want you to try this for yourself so you can see.
      - Open lots of programmes.
      - Now use Alt+tab to bring the second last item to focus.
      - As you select the 3rd last item, the 2nd last item is animated from a narrow side on view to full size icon, when this happens it is intuitive to think you have got the right one, so you release Alt on the wrong one, and have to go through the whole process again.

  I think this is a major look and feel issue with Unity that needs to
  be fixed. I find the side listing of programmes quite cumbersome and
  since the task bar has been done away with I find myself relying on
  alt+tab even more then on gnome.

  This could be fixed by an animated enlargement of the currently
  selected icon, removing the multi-coloured boxes around unselected
  icons, and reducing the visual impact of the animation of the end
  icons rotating to full size icons.

  Ubuntu 12.04
  Unity 5.12-0ubuntu1

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