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[Marco Kirchberger <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
that's definitely make sense :)
I made this via compiz:
Display Top Left: Activate Scale (Super+W)
Display Bottom Right: Show Desktop
Right Click on a scaled window close it

A short screencast how this works on my desktop:
http://ubuntuone.com/69uZt1x2RZ2tsgK2R0yhUe

regards,
Marco


Am 17.02.2012 22:19, schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad:
> 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
>