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Re: Proposal: Raising all windows of the same app

 

Why not just make "smart-raising" windows the default feature, its never
useful in the vast majority of cases for the application to hide smaller
windows behind itself... when that happens to me it makes me, in trolled
style go FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
On May 16, 2012 6:26 PM, "Damián Nohales" <damiannohales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A little proposal.
>
> Holding Ctrl (or a modifier that you find better) and pressing an icon
> in the launcher, should act in the following way:
>
> When you have only one window for the app, the behaviour is the same.
>
> When you have multiples windows of the same app, Unity should raise all
> the windows of the same app in a convenient way (raising little windows
> over maximized or bigger windows). When you press again holding Ctrl,
> the raise should be reseted, that is, if you have focus on a maximized
> window of the app and you have other 3 little windows for that app, the
> correct behaviour is to show those 3 windows over the maximized one.
>
> An ideal behaviour also is that if you have focus on a little window and
> you press Ctrl and the app icon, all the windows are raised but the
> little focused window should maintain the focus (but not for bigger
> windows).
>
> What do you think about?
>
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