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Re: [Ayatana] Alt Tab User Experience

Hello everyone.

I'm new to this list and found this post in the mail archive, and Thunderbird
is a new mailclient to me, so if my reply appears out of thread, I appologize.


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Dylan McCall<dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:


 Mutter, if I recall correctly, continues with Metacity's convention of
 storing a window thumbnail before it is minimized. Meanwhile, Gnome
 Shell's alt tab dialog doesn't show window icons. It shows application
 icons and window thumbnails.


My Unity's default alt+tab behavior shows app icons as emblems over
window thumbnails... and I'm sure I did nothing to set that up on my
own.

Does yours not do this?


Mine also doesn't do this for minimized windows. For non-minimized windows,
it does.

But as we're talking about Alt+tab... I've started using the Shift Switcher
plugin. I think this works better on small screens. I'm on a 11" screen with
monitor with 1366x768 resolution and when I use the current alt+tab plugin,
then I can just barely make out the difference between this tbird window
and the main tbird window. And I have better than average eyesight. However,
when I use the Shift Switcher, super+tab by default, it is very easy to
see the difference.

As an added bonus to the improvement in usability, I think the Shift Switcher
actually looks quite a bit better. It does, however, suffer from the same
issue, that minimized windows looks ugly.