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[Kévin PEIGNOT <winniemiel05@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's sort of what Gnome Shell actually have. I see this great, with a
suggestion :

Instead of the icon,it should be better displaying the window preview, with
an icons in the corner. This way, there are no big and (in my way) ugly
icons, but little shiny ones. More of that, you easily find différences
between each window of same applications.

When there are multiple windows for the same app, display the preview of the
last window which had the focus (last used is the one the user best remenber
generally)

Kevin

2011/8/12 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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