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[Tomasz Janusz <tomick@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, i created smillar bug on Launchpad in last week and we can merge it.
And I agree "Expo" effect is pretty, but not quite usefull.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/738288

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Tomasz Janusz


On 26 March 2011 20:11, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I filed bug [1] in unity today, and it was marked 'opinion' by sabdfl as
> > it needed more discussion before it could be implemented.
> >
> > The current way of switching between windows of the same app is
> > time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the
> > 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then we switch between
> windows.
> >
> > Alongside this, it would be good to have a numbered list of running
> > windows of an app, in its launcher icon's quicklist. This list would be
> > separated from the rest of the quicklist items by a separator line. An
> > example of such an implementation is in Gnome-Shell.
> >
> > Awaiting your comments,
> >
> > Bilal Akhtar
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740862
> >
>
> I agree, I think switching windows in Unity is cumbersome and
> frustrating. Windows 7 actually gets this right IMO, if you hover the
> application icon you are shown a list of that application's windows.
> You can select the window you want in a single click, it's extremely
> fast and easy to use.
>
> DockbarX also implements this for GNOME and also gives the option of
> window previews instead of a list. I urge anyone who hasn't tried
> DockbarX to give it a spin under GNOME 2.x I think it would be a huge
> improvement to Unity if this kind of window switching was implemented.
>
> Luke.
>
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