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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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David Gorski wrote on 04/04/11 19:55:
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> I recently installed Natty on my machine and I was really impressed by
> how far Unity has come. Everything is smooth and I have almost no
> crashes. The interface is also very clean. The only item that stands out
> is the old compiz alt-tab switcher; It looks very odd with the low-res
> icons and scaled-down windows previews.
> 
> My solution to this would be to bring up the Unity launcher and show a
> "highlight" that moves between open applications when alt-tab is
> pressed.
> 
> What do guys think about this?

That is an interesting idea. I see two main difficulties, though.

First, Alt Tab has traditionally switched between windows. If it started
switching between applications instead, that could be extremely frustrating.

Second, if it did switch between applications, using the launcher for
this would be elegant but perhaps not visible enough. Mac OS X 10.0 and
10.1 did exactly what you describe, but it was hard to see the
highlight, so 10.2 introduced a separate overlay-style switcher.

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