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[matt <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have already submitted a bug for the fact that the last active window
is not necessarily the one which receives focus when switching between
applications with multiple windows.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/854643

I agree that bringing the whole group up can be annoying. Particularly
when trying to drag and drop between applications.
For example:
I have two nautilus windows, one occupying the left half of the screen
(say a removable device), one occupying the right (say my documents
folder). I also have a firefox window maximised, but behind the two
nautilus windows. I want to drag a file from the removable device into
my documents folder and then upload it to a website by drag and drop. I
drag and drop from the removable device to documents fine. But now, I
click on firefox, which covers both nautilus windows. So I click on
nautilus, which brings up both windows, covering the firefox window. It
means I must either move or close one of the nautilus windows to achieve
what I want.

Maybe you could submit a wishlist entry for this?

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 22:29 -0500, Juan Montoya wrote:
> (Assuming 'launcher' is the name of the taskbar on the left...):
> 
> Try this:
> Open three explorer windows on different folders and a web browser.
> Select one of the explorer windows.
> Click on the web browser icon on the launcher.
> Click on the explorer icon on the launcher.
> Try this several times.
> 
> You'll notice that all explorer windows are brought to top and most 
> likely the last window your were at is not the one that is active.
> It also, sometimes, gives focus to a window that is below the others and 
> their order is random.
> 
> In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a 
> stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at 
> a time instead of the whole group.
> 
> 
> BTW, I'm new to this list and apologize if this subject has been 
> addressed before.
> 
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