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Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab



That's an excellent idea, binding Super+TAB to spatial program order. Ability to sort through both logically and spatially are going to find their respective uses. I would love to see it become a reality. (I need to hurry up and learn some languages)

I want to bring up a slightly offtopic issue, that is switching between windows of the same application. Yes, we do have tabs, but they still leave much to be desired - there's no way to drag and drop from one folder to another tabbed in a Nautilus window, for example. So going by the Nautilus example, if I'm sorting through a lot of files between a no. of folders it'd be pretty nice if I could keep my chat window out of the way when I decided to move something.

Admittedly, that isn't a very good example, but I think a few of us are going to be able to think up of a few cases when we want to be able to dig through the windows of the same application. Anything planned about this?

On 29 July 2011 10:42, Mark Shuttleworth <mark.shuttleworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28/07/11 22:20, Evan Huus wrote:
Admittedly, I've never used the spatial alternative proposed here, but
I imagine it would be much nicer if I could know 'four tabs is app X'
all the time, rather than, 'four tabs is the
fourth-most-recently-used, which was, uh, what again?'

Then you might like the Super+n key combinations, holding down Super (the Windows key on many laptops) and pressing 0-9 will launch/switch to that launcher. Hold down Super for a while to see the actual number.

I would also be happy to try a patch which used Super+TAB the way we've discussed, tabbing through the launcher.

Mark

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