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Re: Live video of real user window switching + Interesting documentation info

 

(for faster access: window switching starts about 12:30 and seems to use Alt + Tab)

Seems to be a Alt + Tab Variation of the "how to distinguish/select windows by their smaller representation without windowtitles" bug: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/734253






----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Jim Campbell <jwcampbell@xxxxxxxxx>
An:      ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Datum:   07.04.2011 17:31
Betreff: [Ayatana] Live video of real user window switching + Interesting
	documentation info

> Hi All,
> 
> I gave a lightning talk at the Flourish Open Source Conference this past
> weekend about how Gnome is using the documentation syntax Mallard for user
> help in Gnome 3. The talk was recorded by Carl Karsten, hero video recorder
> of PyCon and various Linux-y events. (We are lucky to have him in Chicago.)
> 
> During my talk, I attempted to switch between windows with Unity, and had
> more than a few mis-steps (picking the wrong window, not being sure which
> window I was selecting to view, etc.). In practice, I've found the
> window-switching in gnome-shell to be much less "guessy." The talk is only
> about 5 minutes long (I went a bit over), and I thought the video might be
> helpful for those who are working on Unity.
> 
> http://flourishconference.blip.tv/file/4986480/
> 
> My portion of the talk starts at about 10:00 minutes in.
> 
> Unity docs are in bad shape right now (the doc team balked at signing the
> contributor agreement), but are working on them, and are looking to use a
> similar framework for Ubuntu docs.  Your feedback is welcome.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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