FYI, the design has not been defined by unity (code) developers, but by designers that found that this "hybrid" behavior is better (and I kinda agree with them).
Anyway, if you would like to introduce an option to always make the Alt- Tab to prefer switching to applications, this is possible and patches welcome (it should be quite easy to do). Simply, this not an our priority right now. -- 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: Won't Fix 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
