In this case, Super+number for the launcher eould be disabled, and would be activated per window instead. I'll try to make a mockups, but it'll be a little later today.
On Jun 4, 2011 7:07 AM, "Ed Lin" <
edlin280@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Ian Santopietro <
isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What about adding numbers a la the launcher item as super is continually
>> held down? That way, it's easy to tell which number keys activate which
>> window.
>
> The problem here is that with super+num there's one number per app,
> not per window. You can bring all windows of the selected application
> to the foreground but you can't focus one particular. This works OK
> with terminal windows for example but not with full screen office
> docs.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:06 AM, <
huffylinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> But if you are in the spread view, why would you want to launch
>> something from the unity bar? The confusing thing (to me) is that
>> Win+Num does still work in that view. It's not even clear to me
>> why the unity bar pops out in spread view.
>
> What if you want to check if a particular application is open via
> spread view, if it's not you'd want to quickly launch it via the
> launcher. If the launcher is currently auto-hidden having it pop out
> is both a useful feature (spread view is used for getting a quick
> overview over windows on the current desktop and switch to them, the
> launcher extends this to windows on other workspaces) and it's
> consistent with its normal behavior.
>
> All things considered alt+num still looks like the cleanest solution.
> The confusion aspect is alleviated by it being hidden by default, i.e.
> it would be a power user/"keyboard junkie" feature. As long as people
> don't accidentally hold down the alt key it would work. I'd tend
> towards having it as a disabled per default option.
>
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