There are now so many ways to switch between windows of an application, this
bug no longer applies.
* quicklists using right-click on the launcher
* alt-tab and alt-key-above-tab using the keyboard
* super-number keypresses cycle through windows (as suggested in this bug)
I'd say this old
What I'm missing the most in Unity, it's the Window list applet of the
Gnome panel.
For example, I do a lot of scientific work with Scilab or Octave;
sometimes, I can plot 10 to 15 graphics for a single instance of Scilab,
all of which are on a window of its own. At this point, I have not found
a
Ctrl-TAB has been suggested above - however, this is already used to
cycle through tabs of a particular window of an open application. For
an application (which, in general, will have multiple tabs per window)
wouldn't a new keyboard shortcut be required ?
I agree that there is a usability
To this end, if an agenda is on the cards, may I suggest that upon
hovering the cursor over the item in the launcher with multiple windows
open - say evince, maybe a balloon could be made to pop up itemizing all
the instances open, maybe with some text and an accompanying thumbnail
on the side? -
If I go to 'CCSM -- Utility' and enable 'Scale Addons' , then when I
double click the application icon to view the open windows I can right
click those windows to zoom in/out.
Is there a reason this is not enable by default?
And would the people that have issues with the current behavior accept
** Summary changed:
- Cycling through app and global expo items need improvement
+ Cycling through app windows and apps themselves need improvement
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Multiple windows/instances of the above make the expo difficult to use.
Readability of expo items, a lack of borders, a lack of mouse-over
highlighting, and sane keyboard methods all contribute to this.
If there is one area of Unity that has been impossible to master and
recommend over the panel,
