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[Ingo Gerth <ingo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It might be an interesting idea to highlight the current selection in
alt-tab by a similar effect that is currently shown when pressing alt-F1.
The window(s) corresponding to the application would then be shown on the
right hand side of the launcher, with the launcher being permanently
visible. Repeatedly pressing alt-tab would switch through the applications,
as usual. That should not even be too difficult to implement.

If we would like to take it a step further, there could even be an extra
option to cycle through open tabs, see the current ideas for GNOME Shell
(it's not all that evil...).

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> David Gorski wrote on 04/04/11 19:55:
> >
> > 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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> mpt
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