According to your reasoning, and as I already mentioned in my report, the current behavior makes perfect sense WHEN THE ICON HAS MORE THAN ONE WINDOW and one of them is already the one with focus.
That is: put the mouse cursor on an icon that has more than one window, one of which has already focus. Move the scrollwheel. It switches windows. Ok, makes sense (given the "use the mouse wheel to switch between multiple-data display element in a GUI", which is a shitty way of using the mouse wheel that regretfully has become widespread, but if we accept that, it's consistent). Now put the mouse cursor on a random icon on the launcher which has only one window (there's no data elements to switch between at all). Move the mouse wheel => that window gets focus, and you can't give focus back to the window that previously had it unless you look for it and click on it. That does not make sense and it is an annoyance. You don't expect the current application to be switched without a positive click: well that's exactly what happens: current application is switched with just a movement of the mouse wheel over the icon of another application. Having the mousewheel cycle through icons in the whole launcher would make as much sense as it makes to cycle through tabs within a window when you place the mouse cursor over any tab of e.g. Google Chrome or Ubuntu's Terminal and move the scrollwheel: something that I hate and I would happily get rid of, but it is kind of consistent in that, if you do that by accident, you can "go back" by moving the wheel back. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263786 Title: Nonsense behavior of scrollwheel over Launcher Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps to reproduce: - move the mouse cursor over the launcher - move it over the icon of an application that has one and only one window open that is not on front - move the scrollwheel of the mouse in any direction Expected behavior: NOTHING. Ovserved behavior: the window, corresponding to the icon over which the mouse cursor is, is brought to front; and this cannot be reversed easily. Trying it with an icon of an application that has two or more windows open reveals "why" this happens: - move the mouse cursor over the Launcher over an icon of an application that has two or more windows open - move the scrollwheel This will switch between windows of that application, so scrolling up or down will bring one or another window (of that same application) to front. This is already annoying, like many other abuses of the scrollwheel that unfortunately have become widespread (such as: moving the scrollwheel while keeping the cursor over a tab will switch among tabs in applications that use tabs). But even if we accept the annoying use-the-scrollwheel-for-everything-at-all-costs fashion, only two behaviors would make sense in this case: Option A: - similar to current behavior (switch between windows of an application) but ONLY IF there are more than one window of that application open AND one of those window is already focused. Or option B: - whenever the scrollwheel is on the launcher, scrolling would switch among ALL existing windows Both option A and B would be consistent with the widespread scrollwheel abuse, but would at least make sense, and an unintentional movement of the scrollwheel causing an undesired window switching could always be reverted by a countermovement of the scrollwheel in the opposite direction. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' Date: Mon Dec 23 22:45:54 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (73 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1263786/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
