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

> Sorry, Marco, but if this is the intended design, then the design is
> flawed.

I don't agree here, but feel free to ping JohnLea on #ubuntu-design
about this.

> Unity Alt-Tab behavior breaches the system of using one shortcut for
> switching between applcations and another for switching between windows
> of the same application.

Well, as I said, Alt-Tab is not intended to be used to switch between
applications "only", but also to switch to the last used window of the
previous application (and the previous app and the current app might
match).

> The reason for using shortcuts to switch windows is to do it
> automatically and without thought. If you work in a window for some
> time, you cannot remember which was the last window or application you
> used. Then, when you attempt to alt-tab switch, the result in Unity will
> surprise you most of the time.

Well, I guess this depends a lot on how you're used to work. The
behavior that is requested in this bug would, personally, make my life
harder, since I assume that a single Alt-Tab will always bring me back
to the previous window I used, whatever it was.
So, I think this is mostly a matter of tastes and habits.

> Please, allow the option you suggested. It will greatly improve the
> Unity experience for some people.

Indeed, we can safely support an option like that, so patches very
welcome ;-)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998285

Title:
  Tapping alt-tab switches between windows of the same application
  sometimes

Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Normally, tapping alt-tab switches between applications, and tapping
  alt-` switches between windows of the front-most application. However,
  if the two front-most windows are from the same application, then alt-
  tab will switch between these windows instead, instead of moving to
  the second-front-most application. Hence, in this case, alt-tab
  duplicates the action of alt-`.

  Here is an example:
  1) create the stack with two nautilus windows at the top, e.g. Nautilus window 1 (N1), Nautilus window 2 (N2), and Firefox window (F1) (but you can use any applications). Create the stack either by [clicking F1, N2, N1] or [switching to Nautilus with alt-tab, then alt-` to the other Nautilus window].
  2) Tap alt-tab.

  What happens: I switch to the other nautilus window.

  What I expected: to switch to the other application (i.e. Firefox).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  Date: Sat May 12 10:17:21 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-29 (12 days ago)

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