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[cyrildz <cyrildz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, I file a bug today :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/825413


I thought it would be good if discuss about this Idea here. I paste
here the same explication I put on Launchpad

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Hi ,

First , great Job for this news Iteration of Unity.
As the main focus is on Space , I thought about how we could improve the
Alt-Tab behavior and come out with 2 Idea, but I prefere just the
second, so I post here only the 2nd.
Sorry for my Bad English.

What is Wrong (in my point of view) or seems wrong with the actuel new
Alt-Tab is that : when an application has many instances ( lets say 4,
as in my Mockup) Alt-Tab  draws any instance of that application in a
(m)x(n) matrix manner( how does it look when we have 6 instances or
more ? ) , that is a bad choice  because its clutters the global look of
the desktop  and it feel so heavy.

I propose, instead of drawing the differents instances in a (m) x (n)
matrix manner, we draw it in a row [ (1) x  (n) ]  matrix ( n here is
the number of an application instance)  and instead of showing the
Switch-app-dialog we show Instance dialog

Vocabulary / Legend :

 #Switch-app dialog : here I mean the dialog shown when you press  Alt+
Tab (in my Mockup it is the 1 draw)

#Instance dialog : maintening Alt pressed, when pressing the Down Key on
Keyboard, Switch-app dialog redraw itself with only the instance of the
application from where you pressed the down Key.( in my Mockup it is
represented by the 2nd draw)

My design ( I'm not a designer ) propose two possibilties  to Switch-app
dialog  and a possibility to close  any instances of an application. 


1- The keyboard Key Esc is used to return to the Switch-app dialog ( for
Power User) , but in the instance dialog we have an entry which allow us
to use the  mouse to return to the Switch-app dialog.

2-Any preview of an instance have on top of them a cross button to
delete that instance


3- The Instance dialog has an entry to allow us to close all instance at
Once ( which could be done by closing that application from the alt-tab
dialog. Of course, closing all intsnaces from here take us back
automatically to the Switch-app dialog



sorry for the Mockup , I'm not a designer, so I draw it by Hand and
scanned it.

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