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[Valeryan_24 <Valeryan_24@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

Unity is getting very fine and I enjoy using it.

Regarding one particular thing, I would like to change the default 
behavior if possible, sorry if this has already been discussed and decided.

It's related to switch between application windows when more than 1 is 
opened.

For the icons in left Unity dock, there are 1, 2, 3... white triangles 
if 1, 2, 3 windows of the same application are active (ex : many Firefox 
instances, or Firefox + bookmarks page, or Thunderbird + address book + 
mail redaction, or many Nautilus windows...)

When we want to switch from one of these windows to another, we have to 
click on the icon in Unity dock, and it shows us with an animation a 
small view of all these windows.

Here I'd like that the current window is shown at the right side and the 
other shown closest and near the Unity dock, it would make less mouse 
move to change window.

Some examples to be clear :

http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1298217934.png

I am on the Firefox window on Ubuntu page, and I want to switch on the 
window with Google page. When I click to Minefield icon on dock, it 
shows me on left side the current window, and I have to go with mouse on 
the right to select the other window.

When there is only 1 window of an app' opened, nothing happens if I 
click on the dock icon (no hide, no launch of another instance), logical.

So, if there are many windows opened, if I click on the icon, it 
normally means that I want to switch between them. In this case, it 
would make sense that the other windows are shown the nearest from my 
mouse, to make me easy and quick to switch, and not have to go on the 
other part of the screen.

With 3 windows opened :

http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1298218213.png

Here I was on Thunderbird main screen (with inbox mails), and again when 
I click on the icon, this screen is the first proposed to me in top 
left. As I want to switch to one of the 2 other windows, I expect 
Thunderbird main screen shown on the most far position, on top right, 
and 2 others on bottom and top left.

What do you think of that ?

In this case also, could another click on dock icon re-maximize current 
window (if finally we do not want to switch) ?

Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Xavier