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[Andreas Tsourouflis <andreas.tsourouflis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Ben and I understand why he is angry. However, I don't
think that we should start a dispute about who is right and who is
wrong.

I am pretty sure that the Unity devs had their reasons for introducing
this Alt-Tab behavior. I am also sure that there is a good deal of
people who work with only 3 or 4 windows open and find this switching
method very convenient. However, there is another good deal of people
who work with many windows open and find the Unity switching method very
annoying.  So, nobody is wrong and nobody is "cleverer" than the other.

Marco, please don't take it personally that I said in some previous
comment that the design was flawed. The flaw does not lie in the choice
the Unity devs made but in assuming that there is only one suitable
switching method for everybody. As a matter of fact, although we users
are grateful to the Unity and Gnome Shell devs for their efforts, our
grudge is that they assume their perceived way of working to be the only
appropriate one. In conclusion, please allow us, simple users, the
option to configure the Alt-Tab behavior and everybody will be happy.

By the way, as regards the use of CSSM, the Unity swither cannot be
fully disabled. If you uncheck the Unity switcher and enable the "Static
Application Switcher", when you press Alt+`, the Unity switcher still
appears.

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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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