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[Christian Mackintosh <christian.mackintosh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Option 1 seems neat but slow. When I'm working between two windows, be they
of the same application or different ones, option 2 means I can easily flip
between them with a quick press of Alt+Tab.

Thanks,

Christian

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:03 PM, M. Adnan Quaium
<adnan.quaium@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Option 1 Sounds great! I always like the idea of switching between Apps
> instead of switching between windows. Though it is time consuming, but still
> that is my favorite option.
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> On 13 April 2011 19:59, Pippa Kyle <pippa.kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, guys, I should have realised that you probably don't spend a lot of
>> time with Win/Mac.
>>
>> So a slightly different question...
>>
>> When using Alt-Tab for switching between windows, would you like windows
>> of a particular app grouped under that app?
>>
>> So, for example, you have 3 Firefox windows, 2 email windows and 1 IRC
>> window open.
>>
>> Do you want Alt-Tab to show you:
>> Option 1 - Firefox icon, Email client icon, IRC client icon.  You select
>> one to view its individual windows (this is the Mac way, and seems to be the
>> Gnome 3 way too now).
>> or
>> Option 2 - 3 Firefox windows (with Firefox icon on corner of each), 2
>> email windows (with icons) and 1 IRC window (with icon). You can access each
>> window directly (this is pretty much the current implementation and also the
>> Win way).
>>
>> Back to you...
>>
>> On 12/04/11 16:51, Pippa Kyle wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ayatana guys!  Just wanted to get some opinions...
>>>
>>> I'm looking into making improvements to task/application switching on the
>>> desktop with Alt-Tab.  There are slightly different approaches currently for
>>> Windows 7 and Mac.
>>>
>>> Personally I like the Windows way, as the window preview in the
>>> background helps me find exactly what I'm looking for.  I can easily switch
>>> back and forth between 2 apps, and I can also see which window is part of
>>> which app.
>>>
>>> I can see that the app-based approach in Mac isn't a bad thing, but
>>> without the window preview, I'm not sure how this approach would scale to
>>> smaller screens.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on this, and what would be good for Unity?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pippa
>>>
>>>
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