I agree with Ben and I understand why he is angry. However, I don't think that we should start a dispute about who is right and who is wrong.
I am pretty sure that the Unity devs had their reasons for introducing this Alt-Tab behavior. I am also sure that there is a good deal of people who work with only 3 or 4 windows open and find this switching method very convenient. However, there is another good deal of people who work with many windows open and find the Unity switching method very annoying. So, nobody is wrong and nobody is "cleverer" than the other. Marco, please don't take it personally that I said in some previous comment that the design was flawed. The flaw does not lie in the choice the Unity devs made but in assuming that there is only one suitable switching method for everybody. As a matter of fact, although we users are grateful to the Unity and Gnome Shell devs for their efforts, our grudge is that they assume their perceived way of working to be the only appropriate one. In conclusion, please allow us, simple users, the option to configure the Alt-Tab behavior and everybody will be happy. By the way, as regards the use of CSSM, the Unity swither cannot be fully disabled. If you uncheck the Unity switcher and enable the "Static Application Switcher", when you press Alt+`, the Unity switcher still appears. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998285 Title: Tapping alt-tab switches between windows of the same application sometimes Status in Unity: Won't Fix Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Normally, tapping alt-tab switches between applications, and tapping alt-` switches between windows of the front-most application. However, if the two front-most windows are from the same application, then alt- tab will switch between these windows instead, instead of moving to the second-front-most application. Hence, in this case, alt-tab duplicates the action of alt-`. Here is an example: 1) create the stack with two nautilus windows at the top, e.g. Nautilus window 1 (N1), Nautilus window 2 (N2), and Firefox window (F1) (but you can use any applications). Create the stack either by [clicking F1, N2, N1] or [switching to Nautilus with alt-tab, then alt-` to the other Nautilus window]. 2) Tap alt-tab. What happens: I switch to the other nautilus window. What I expected: to switch to the other application (i.e. Firefox). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] Date: Sat May 12 10:17:21 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-29 (12 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/998285/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
