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[Xavier Guillot <Valeryan_24@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Another question regarding icon properties on the Unity Launcher Dock.

At the beginning, with mouse right click on an icon, there were 3 lines :

- Keep in launcher
- Quit

and a third one to launch another window of the program (ie a second 
terminal instance, or a second Nautilus window...)

No this possibility disappeared, it's available with middle click.

Personally I do not like middle clic very much, as it's not ergonomic 
for me and I never use it, I'm very used to make right click directly 
and see context menu to choose an action.

Would it be possible please to have an option on ccsm to configure that ?

Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Xavier

On 28/02/2011 22:06, Xavier wrote:
> 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) ?
>
> I also noticed something on Minefield (nightly development version of 
> Firefox) :
>
> When there are many windows opened and one is not maximized (ex: 
> Download manager, or links / javascript launches un-maximized new 
> window), when clicking on the Minefield icon on Unity dock, it ALWAYS 
> shows at left (or top left) this un-maximized window, even if I'm on 
> another one when switching.
>
> This happens on Minefield, not on normal Ubuntu Firefox or 
> Thunderbird, but also for example on Tomboy.
>
> If I open many notes, maximize all except one, this one will always 
> appear at (top) left.
>
> Would it be possible to add a configuration option to make current 
> window going to the (top) right when clicking to switch, and other(s) 
> on (top) left or bottom ?
>
> Thanks in advance. Best regards,
>
> Xavier