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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about using Alt+Tab to call up the Window preview (Copy Super+W).
Continuing to press the key combo would highlight the next/previous window
in the sequence, and when you let go of Alt, it goes to the currently
highlighted window?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:05, Ingo Gerth <ingo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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