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It's a lovely idea, and three consecutive designers have dashed themselves on the rocks trying to get it right. I'd be thrilled if someone could do better!
Here's what we found each time we tried it:*The launcher is spatial, the alt-tab is logical.* The alt-tab works best when it is a stack, with the most recently used stuff first. Toggling between apps is always a single alt-tab, and moving between a small group of apps scales up accordingly, alt-tab-tab-tab gets you to the third most recently used app/window.
If you want to jump more than one step back in the stack, you want to be able to see where you are going. And this is the problem with the launcher, in order to give a sense of trajectory, you would need to reorder the items on the launcher. Which breaks people's sense of "where things are" and makes the launcher seem arbitrary. On the other hand, you could jump from item to item, but then you are not providing any clue as to where the next tab will send you. Which feels sucky (we tried it :-)).
So, it's an interesting exercise and a very attractive idea, and if someone can make it work I would embrace the patch, but I think it's one of those attractive-but-wrong sinkholes. Prove me wrong :-)
Mark On 28/07/11 15:52, Owas Lone wrote:
Great Idea. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Alex Launi<alex.launi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I love this. It really just makes alt-tab a keybinding for features we already have. Very clean, very simple, and enhances the idioms we've already started developing. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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