Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I filed bug [1] in unity today, and it was marked 'opinion' by sabdfl as
> it needed more discussion before it could be implemented.
>
> The current way of switching between windows of the same app is
> time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the
> 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then we switch between windows.
>
> Alongside this, it would be good to have a numbered list of running
> windows of an app, in its launcher icon's quicklist. This list would be
> separated from the rest of the quicklist items by a separator line. An
> example of such an implementation is in Gnome-Shell.
>
> Awaiting your comments,
>
> Bilal Akhtar
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740862
>

I agree, I think switching windows in Unity is cumbersome and
frustrating. Windows 7 actually gets this right IMO, if you hover the
application icon you are shown a list of that application's windows.
You can select the window you want in a single click, it's extremely
fast and easy to use.

DockbarX also implements this for GNOME and also gives the option of
window previews instead of a list. I urge anyone who hasn't tried
DockbarX to give it a spin under GNOME 2.x I think it would be a huge
improvement to Unity if this kind of window switching was implemented.

Luke.