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[Bazon <bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx>]

And another similar bug I filed a while ago:
in the expo view, it sometimes isn't possible to distinguish windows 
containing text documents:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/734253

see this screenshot:
http://ubuntuone.com/p/hSh/ <http://ubuntuone.com/p/hSh/>

labels on launcher would solve this as well.



On 27.03.2011 13:12, Tomasz Janusz wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Tomasz Janusz
>
>
> On 26 March 2011 20:11, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:kazade@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto: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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