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[Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/17/2012 03:19 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> It just dawned on me that we have no mouse-way of displaying a spread 
> view of windows, like super+w. Middle-clicking the Ubuntu button 
> currently does nothing. Perhaps it could be used to display the spread 
> view? This would sort of correspond to clicking on an already focused 
> application with more than one window. Instead of displaying all 
> Firefox windows, for instance, it would display all windows in Ubuntu 
> – meaning every open window. It may not be entirely obvious, but it 
> does somehow make sense, doesn't it? :)
>
> Or what about making the workspace switcher a dual-action button with 
> a left click being used to display a spread of windows and right click 
> being used to access the workspace switcher?
>
> The point is that I would really like to have a mouse-way of 
> displaying a spread view of windows, but I don't think I'd like to add 
> another launcher entry just for that.
>
> Just a few thoughts.
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I like that idea. GNOME Shell has this, Windows Vista/7 has this 
feature, and OSX has this feature. That was what I was just thinking: 
why not implement this into Unity? Thanks!

---Ryan