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[Ed Lin <edlin280@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What about adding numbers a la the launcher item as super is continually
> held down? That way, it's easy to tell which number keys activate which
> window.

The problem here is that with super+num there's one number per app,
not per window. You can bring all windows of the selected application
to the foreground but you can't focus one particular. This works OK
with terminal windows for example but not with full screen office
docs.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:06 AM,  <huffylinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But if you are in the spread view, why would you want to launch
> something from the unity bar?  The confusing thing (to me) is that
> Win+Num does still work in that view.  It's not even clear to me
> why the unity bar pops out in spread view.

What if you want to check if a particular application is open via
spread view, if it's not you'd want to quickly launch it via the
launcher. If the launcher is currently auto-hidden having it pop out
is both a useful feature (spread view is used for getting a quick
overview over windows on the current desktop and switch to them, the
launcher extends this to windows on other workspaces) and it's
consistent with its normal behavior.

All things considered alt+num still looks like the cleanest solution.
The confusion aspect is alleviated by it being hidden by default, i.e.
it would be a power user/"keyboard junkie" feature.  As long as people
don't accidentally hold down the alt key it would work. I'd tend
towards having it as a disabled per default option.